Restoring underwater kelp forests by culling overgrazing sea urchins would deliver significant financial benefits, a new study has found. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ...

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 ...

An international team is calling for a US $14 billion investment to protect and restore one of the planet's most valuable and overlooked marine ecosystems, kelp forests. Subscribe to our newsletter ...

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 ...

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, invertebrates and even mammals ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

An international team is calling for a US $14 billion investment to protect and restore one of the planet's most valuable and overlooked marine ecosystems, kelp forests. New Zealand's first legislated ...

“We found that kelp that grows in cooler, more nutrient-rich water is healthier — contains more chlorophyll pigment — and that kelp forests in these cooler regions of the [Santa Barbara] Channel are ...

California’s underwater kelp forests are in trouble. A combination of climate change and hungry purple sea urchins have decimated these vital forests. But the Monterey Peninsula has a kelp forest ...