Struggling kelp forests like those along the California coast show why 'out of sight, out of mind' is not good climate change policy.

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.

SAN DIEGO — A California aquarium‘s Halloween spirit runs deep – 12 feet under, to be exact. The Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography added a fake skeleton from Home Depot to its ...

More than 10 years after unusually high water temperatures in the Pacific Ocean killed off Northern California’s aquatic kelp forests, the region has still not recovered, reports David Helvarg, ...

The decline of California's kelp forests since the marine heat wave of 2013–17 has seen only minor recovery despite heroic efforts at restoration carried out by scientists, fishermen, coastal tribes, ...