Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers examining a century of ocean maps made an exciting discovery linking sea otter populations to kelp forests: Where sea ...

Giant kelp forests, an icon of the San Diego coastline, are in retreat as a result of climate change– Off the coast, water ...

A new report spells out exactly how much Oregon’s kelp forests have dwindled over the past decade or so — and the picture is bleak. According to a status report released by the Oregon Kelp Alliance in ...

SANTA CRUZ — To underscore the urgency of responding to the steep decline in kelp forests, filmmaker Natasha Benjamin posits an alarming hypothetical: what if 95% of California’s redwoods were to ...

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 ...

Sea otters play a vital role in maintaining the balance of sensitive kelp forests. Hidden beneath the surface of our coastal seas are towering forests - of kelp. These underwater ecosystems are as ...

A decimated giant kelp forest in Southern California is making a comeback after volunteers removed almost two million sea urchins that devour the plants. The Bay Foundation reports that the first year ...

Giant kelp and bull kelp forests create habitats that support an amazing diversity of sea life, and their floating canopies are a prominent feature at the surface of California coastal waters.

Third Eye Blind lead singer Stephan Jenkins is replanting kelp forests off the California coast, and that is incredibly valuable to the ecosystem “A thousand miles of kelp, a mile out, with gray ...