Temperatures have become too warm in the southern parts of the Gulf of Maine for kelp forests, a foundation for marine life.

Kelp is a hot topic right now,” said Gina Contolini, a kelp restoration specialist with the Greater Farallones Association, ...

Using mathematical models, researchers have been able to identify how an extinct mammal - the Stellar’s Sea Cow - likely impacted kelp forests prior to overhunting by European colonizers.

Now, the kelp is replaced by armies of purple sea urchins, a casualty of a vast kelp forest collapse that began in 2014. Fueled by a marine heat wave that year that scientists dubbed “the blob ...

Along South Australia's Limestone Coast, the southern rock lobsters living in kelp forests are vital to the town of Port MacDonnell because of the town's lucrative fishing industry. The waters ...

The diverse and productive kelp forests that once adorned much of our rocky reefs have been devastated by hordes of kina or ...

the kelp forests off the coast of northern California. Warming sea water has triggered an explosion in the population of purple sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) which devour kelp at an ...

Kelp has vanished from about 80% of the shorelines around which it once grew in Puget Sound, according to a 2023 report from Washington’s Kelp Forest Monitoring Alliance. South of the Tacoma ...

Sea urchins feed on kelp and in their march south, have reduced kelp cover. This has added to pressure on kelp forests ... In ...

The film sheds light on the multitude of values around the Great African Seaforest, and the many contributions it provides - as a harvested resource that supports multiple livelihoods, to the sense of ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ocean Wise and the Kelp Forest Alliance are excited to release a first-of-its-kind guidebook to standardize the monitoring of kelp ...