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

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 moved in ...

Next up in the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum’s (SBMM) Maritime Distinguished Speaker Series is Life Beneath the Waves: Uncovering the Science Behind the Santa Barbara Channel’s Kelp Forest Sanctuaries ...

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 ...

When I sat down to interview Santa Barbara–based fisherman Chris Goldblatt, I was expecting a conversation about the benefits of putting rocks on the seafloor to create reef habitats. What I got ...

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

La Jolla and Point Loma are home to the largest giant kelp forests on the West Coast, but those golden underwater forests are ...

Juliet is your community news reporter covering the South Coast of Santa Barbara County. Fish Reef Project founder Chris Goldblatt has made it a mission to care for the ocean. "The ocean has given me ...

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 ...

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.

Various fish species, including cunner and the pollock — the two dominant fish species identified in the study — swim off Cashes Ledge through some of the healthy kelp forest that remains in the Gulf ...