Biodiversity is the bedrock of resilience, and kelp forests show why.

The Santa Barbara Channel’s kelp forests and its sandy beaches are intimately connected. Giant kelp, the foundation species of rocky reefs, serves as a major part of the beach food web as fronds of ...

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 ...

A suite of specimens featured in the museum’s upcoming “From These Lands” exhibition illustrate the intertwined nature of sea ...

A new study published by a team of researchers at Bigelow Labs sheds further light on an underwater battle happening on the ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The weathered UC Davis Marine Laboratory looms in thick fog on the edge of the ocean near Bodega Bay. Inside, an experiment is playing out that gives a badly needed boost to ...

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.

Kelp forests provide essential food, habitat and clean water for a rich marine ecosystem on Maine’s coast, but these forests are in flux due to the pressures of rising ocean temperatures. Brian Skerry ...

The loss of dense kelp forests along the Maine coast—and the northward proliferation of small, carpet-like turf algae in its ...

Along the Monterey Peninsula, “urchin barrens” with no kelp (foreground) are interspersed with remnant patches of kelp forest (background). (Photo by Michael Langhans) In 2019, researchers found a ...