Aquarium researchers found that in Northern and Southern California, within the last century, the kelp forest has declined drastically by 63 and 52 percent, respectively. Meanwhile, in Central ...

The top of the kelp forest emerges from the surface of the Monterey Bay recently as a pelican wings by a resting paddler near Lighthouse Point in Santa Cruz.

Aquarium researchers found that in Northern and Southern California, within the last century, the kelp forest has declined drastically by 63 and 52 percent, respectively. Meanwhile, in Central ...

Bull kelp also helps out humans, thanks to its plentiful oxygen production, and protects the coasts from erosion and other damage caused by waves. The kelp itself, though, is in dire straits.

Scientific diver Morgan Murphy-Cannella holds bull kelp with a dark patch of reproductive spores as she surveys a reforestation project, Friday, Sept. 29, near Caspar, Calif. Kelp forests play an ...

Divers fight to save California's kelp forests threatened by warming ocean waters by Associated Press on YouTube. CASPAR, Calif. -- A welding hammer strapped to her wrist, Joy Hollenback slipped ...

The mass die-out allowed the sea urchin population to explode, and in 2021, satellite imagery showed that 95 percent of California’s kelp forests had been destroyed and replaced by carpets of ...

Bull kelp also helps out humans, thanks to its plentiful oxygen production, and protects the coasts from erosion and other damage caused by waves. The kelp itself, though, is in dire straits.