The long golden-brown strands of bull kelp that wash up along Washington’s shores might seem like just beach debris, but they’re a reminder of the vibrant underwater forests below. Children ...

Later this summer, the group will publish a kelp status report and a comprehensive restoration plan that aims to rehabilitate Oregon’s underwater forests, although similar efforts in California ...

Inside, an experiment is playing out that gives a badly needed boost to Northern California’s kelp forests — underwater cathedrals of green and gold that nearly vanished from the north coast a ...

Highly productive kelp forests are being touted as a natural climate solution, but do we know enough to count them as such?

While free diving to photograph kelp forests along the California coastline, I’ve viscerally felt the consequences of finiteness as a living being—the fleeting nature of a single breath, the limits of ...

A photographer shares the epiphanies she has had while chronicling underwater jungles off the California coast Avery Schuyler Nunn The kelp forest is my favorite ecosystem on Earth. I first began ...

Hidden beneath the surface of our coastal seas are towering forests - of kelp. These underwater ecosystems are as crucial to our environment as their land-based counterparts. We’ll explore them ...

But these kelp forests (pictured) are under threat, partly because of rising ocean temperatures induced by climate change. When kelp forests collapse, carpets of red algae — known as turf algae ...

Underwater kelp forests along Oregon’s southern shore are disappearing at an alarming clip, according to new data by the Oregon Kelp Alliance. The statewide nonprofit quantified those seaweed ...

They are scientists from the University of Victoria (UVic) who are trying to regrow kelp forests ... decades on British Columbia's majestic underwater forests, which provide food and resources ...

While kelp forests persist along northern Maine's rocky coast, kelp abundance has declined by as much as 80% on the southern ...