Researchers examining a century of ocean maps made an exciting discovery linking sea otter populations to kelp forests: Where sea otters thrive, so do these critical underwater habitats. The research ...

New research finds that Marine Protected Areas can boost the recovery of globally important kelp forests following marine heatwaves. The findings are published in the British Ecological Society’s ...

Ripple, Splash and Tidy do their best to clean the Kelp Forest before it is too late. After putting some orange sea stars in the Kelp Forest where they don’t belong, Splash, Ripple, and Tidy must get ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The weathered UC Davis Marine Laboratory looms in thick fog on the edge of the ocean near Bodega Bay. Inside, an experiment is playing out that gives a badly needed boost to ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- Over the last 10 years, an ecological disaster has taken place along the coast from San Francisco north. Bull kelp forests, which provide some of the most productive habitat ...

Ripple calls her brothers to help save the Kelp Forest. After realizing she cannot save the Kelp Forest all on her own, Ripple decides to ask her 499 brothers and papa to help remove all the orange ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif) — The kelp forest is ephemeral, yet foundational. Fronds of this fast-growing giant seaweed come and go with the seasons, storms and waves, supporting communities of fish, ...

While free diving to photograph kelp forests along the California coastline, I’ve viscerally felt the consequences of finiteness as a living being—the fleeting nature of a single breath, the limits of ...

Jennifer McHenry receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC), Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO),and Oceans North. Julia K. Baum receives funding from NSERC, ...

Kelp is essential to oceans, providing a habitat for numerous marine life and keeping the ocean clean by trapping carbon.