When Salomé Buglass was studying underwater mountains in the Galapagos, the marine scientist came across something she didn't expect. "I see these tall, green things just swaying from one side to the ...

This article was originally published by Hakai Magazine. Kelp is common along temperate shorelines around the world. For millennia, this large brown algae has been vital to coastal Indigenous peoples.

Kelp species such as Saccharina japonica and Undaria pinnatifida serve as critical global economic resources. However, global warming, marked by rising seawater temperatures, is severely impacting ...

Kelp forests will experience a marked change in ecosystem functioning in response to continued ocean warming and the increase of warm-water kelp species, according to a new study. Kelp forests in the ...

Every summer, students in the Marine Biodiversity and Conservation MAS Program at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego spend a week on Catalina Island, one of the Channel Islands off ...

Aug. 24 (UPI) --As oceans warm, the dynamics of kelp forest ecosystems are changing. A new survey of kelp forests off Britain's southwest coasts found the abundance of the warm water kelp species ...

In the coastal waters off British Columbia, tribal volunteers from the Haida Nation dive for purple sea urchins amid a dense ...

Kelp forests are among the most productive and species-rich marine ecosystems in the world. In a sweeping display of the power of community-based science to capture data spanning the entire West Coast ...

Satellite imagery shows that the area covered by kelp forests off the coast of Northern California has dropped by more than 95 percent, with just a few small, isolated patches of bull kelp remaining.