‘A profound shift’: Study sheds light on decades of kelp health — and decline — near La Jolla

Scripps Oceanography scientists hope the findings will aid efforts to restore kelp and bolster its resilience to changing conditions ...
Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Researchers Create a Family History of San Diego Kelp over More Than Four Decades

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

Longest-ever study of giant kelp finds San Diego’s ocean forest in decline

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

Marine biologists a family history of San Diego's giant kelp over more than four decades

The growth form of giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) is composed of shoots known as stipes instead of branches. From one ...
WESA

Scientists Hope To Farm The Biofuel Of The Future In The Pacific Ocean

Kelp plants grow on a 30-foot-long, white PVC pole suspended in the water. If this is successful, instead of just one row, there would be a whole platform, hundreds of meters across and hundreds of ...
SpaceNews

New View of Undersea Giant Kelp Forest “Canopy”–From Satellites Above

Marine scientists have a new view of the giant kelp in the Pacific Ocean–through a scuba mask and a satellite’s “eye.” Forests of giant kelp, or Macrocystis pyrifera, are found in temperate coastal ...
KPBS

Beauty and tragedy of San Diego’s kelp forest on display at the Birch Aquarium

It’s Saturday afternoon and the Birch Aquarium is swimming with families. There are a lot of kids in the “Hold Fast” exhibit about kelp forests. They’re running through a display of 27 kelp plant ...
Mother Jones

First, the Heat Killed Maine’s Kelp. Then an Invasive Algae Sealed Its Fate.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Shane Farrell has spent the better part of the last three years underwater, diving ...