A new study offers a reason why Maine's decimated kelp forests may fail to recover: a chemical released by red algae that can kill kelp at an early stage of development. The findings suggest that ...

A photographer shares the epiphanies she has had while chronicling underwater jungles off the California coast Avery Schuyler Nunn The kelp forest is my favorite ecosystem on Earth. I first began ...

Bringing back sunflower sea stars, which are functionally extinct in California, could help restore kelp forests off the coast, researchers say.

Los Angeles is home to incredible science museums that make learning fun for kids of all ages. If you want to make science concepts come alive for littles, nothing quite does the job like interactive ...

“Help Our Kelp Act” would authorize $5 million a year in a new grant program to fund conservation, restoration, and management projects focused on kelp forest ecosystems.

Northern California kelp forests surprised researchers by bouncing back more than expected, according to reporting from Bay Nature Magazine from 2021.

They were keystone predators in California’s kelp forest ecosystems, keeping grazing animals such as sea urchins in check and allowing lush kelp forests to thrive.

Rescuing Kelp Forests Through Science Breakthrough genetic research at a Massachusetts lab could save the world’s vanishing kelp forests—and support American kelp farming, too. The Hard Work of ...

Sea Otters Have Helped Bolster California’s Kelp Forest A study that looks back more than 100 years shows that where the animals have thrived, underwater forests have, too ...

Historical analysis shows that the marine mammals likely kept some of California’s kelp forests growing over the past 100 years.