The mounds of kelp washed ashore Orange County beaches by recent storms is a visual not so common in recent years. The brown leafy algae had been under attack from a non-native species known as ...

The macroalga giant kelp, which is an iconic and important ecosystem-structuring species found off the coast of California and many other coastlines, can grow 100-feet long within 1-2 years. Now, ...

PACIFIC GROVE – The bull kelp forests of the Pacific Coast began to decline in 2013. A perfect storm of events —a climate-induced marine heatwave, a strong El Niño season and the explosion in ...

Over a recent weekend in Two Harbors, a little town on Catalina Island’s remote northern shores, I donned a wetsuit, strapped on some fins and set off in a kayak to explore the pristine coves around ...

What factors drive the health, growth and productivity of giant kelp? There are several, but according to researchers, what you see depends on the scale at which you're observing. What factors drive ...

Young kelp forests are returning to Peru after scientists replanted giant seaweed, creating habitat for fish and restoring ...