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

The Kelp Forest Alliance, for which both Eger and Vergés serve on the board of directors, recommends protecting 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres) and restoring 1 million hectares (2.5 ...

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

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

Kelp forests are some of the most productive ecosystems on Earth. Giant kelp, a kind of algae, can grow up to 18 inches per day, and the trees reach more than ten stories tall at full growth.

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 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 ...

In the last seven years, the KRI reports up to 95 per cent of these dense, brown seaweed forests, which make up the canopy-forming algae that can grow from the sea floor all the way to the water's ...