Beneath the surface of Canada’s coastal waters lies a hidden world—lush, swaying kelp forests that rival the biodiversity of ...

Could kelp burgers really taste like meat? It’s probably not a question most people have ever asked themselves. In fact, up until a few months ago, this writer never even knew kelp burgers existed.

Kelp plants grow on a 30-foot-long, white PVC pole suspended in the water. If this is successful, instead of just one row, there would be a whole platform, hundreds of meters across and hundreds of ...

Our oceans are becoming more acidic; their pH is going down as they absorb more and more carbon dioxide from Earth's atmosphere. It's thought that this acidity is negatively affecting marine life, and ...

(ENN) -- As houses slid down California cliffs this winter as a result of El Niño's battering winds and rain, marine scientists were busy studying the effects of El Nino on the ocean floor. Jim Estes, ...

Kelp once formed “underwater rainforests” on the California coast, but these fragile ecosystems have largely disappeared. At a marine lab near the Bay Area, scientists are trying to bring them back.

This series of images shows the growth of juvenile kelp plants on ‘green gravel’ in the laboratory. Paz-Lacavex seeds small rocks with kelp spores to make green gravel in the laboratory. A tiny kelp ...

It’s Saturday afternoon and the Birch Aquarium is swimming with families. There are a lot of kids in the “Hold Fast” exhibit about kelp forests. They’re running through a display of 27 kelp plant ...

HOOD CANAL, Wash. (AP) — Scientist Joth Davis unspooled 150 feet of line holding thousands of tiny spores of kelp into Hood Canal in Washington state, while Brian Allen dove underwater and affixed the ...

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