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 ...

Every year, on a late summer night, Eva Pagaling joins a group of fellow Chumash paddlers who climb into a tomol, a ...

A chain reaction ensued after the kelp forest decline. With limited grazing availability, abalone were threatened and the ...

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 ...

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

A new study of kelp fossils from the coast of Washington state show that kelp forests, which host all manner of marine life, developed tens of... New fossils suggest kelp forests have swayed in the ...

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.

Parts of the warming Gulf of Maine have become inhospitable for kelp forests, according to new research from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay. Between 2001 and 2018, a team ...

Urchin barren off the coast of Palos Verdes. BY TOM FORD / SMBRF Off the coast of Palos Verdes, the ocean floor is home to millions of purple urchins… and not much else. Kelp forests are iconic to the ...

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