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More than a thousand fish species use sounds to exchange information, attract mates, and avoid predators through hums, grunts ...
While kelp forests persist along northern Maine's rocky coast, kelp abundance has declined by as much as 80% on the southern coast in recent decades. In its stead, carpet-like turf algae have ...
So while protecting and managing kelp forests promotes carbon capture, it may not always directly translate into climate change mitigation.
Countries around the world are increasingly turning to nature to help alleviate the impacts of climate change. Forests, grasslands and wetlands are already considered as "natural climate solutions ...
Bringing back sunflower sea stars, which are functionally extinct in California, could help restore kelp forests off the coast, researchers say.
Northern California kelp forests surprised researchers by bouncing back more than expected, according to reporting from Bay Nature Magazine from 2021.
Journey into the depths of California's kelp forests, the towering underwater ecosystems facing the challenges of climate change.
According to a status report released by the Oregon Kelp Alliance in November, nearly 900 acres of bull kelp forest has essentially disappeared off the Oregon Coast since 2010.
More than 90% of the kelp forests have disappeared along the Northern California Coast.
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.