Kelp forests once grew thick here, but have been grazed down by growing populations of sea urchins, in this image from 2020. According to a status report released by the Oregon Kelp Alliance in ...

Kelp forests are teeming with life, earning their reputation as biodiversity hotspots. In a single patch of forest, you might encounter sea urchins scuttling along the seafloor, colorful ...

The kelp forests that hug the Pacific coastline are an underwater jungle. They're a thicket of colossal algae intermixed with a pageant of life that includes snails, urchins, sea lions, sea otters ...

The BriefSouthern resident killer whales have been observed using detached seaweed as tools to rub against each other, a ...

And killer whale youngsters are fond of playing kelp keep-away. But what the southern residents are doing with the kelp ...

Seaweed and kelp are critical for life on Earth Forests and beds filter excess nutrients and sequester carbon through ...

Drone footage reveals killer whales using kelp to bond, groom, and possibly heal - offering a rare glimpse into their social ...

“Kelp forests provide all these different resources and a lot of them are fished or fishable,” Beas explains. “[But] when the kelp forest is gone, all the different species associated with ...

Kelp forests act as nurseries for juvenile rockfish and other groundfish – providing shelter, food and a place to grow – so the drastic decline of kelp beds is bound to have an impact, ...

Canadian kelp forests may capture and export between 40,000 and 400,000 metric tons of carbon to the deep ocean per year ...

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

Kelp forests absorb and export significant amounts of carbon, with Canadian kelp forests estimated to sequester 40,000–400,000 metric tons of carbon per year, comparable to other coastal ecosystems.