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

“We were seeing images of kelp and [abalone] lifted out of the water and dying,” says Waters. For these two scientists who had spent much of the previous decade looking for evidence of ...

But kelp is a generic name for many different types of brown seaweed. The term does not refer specifically to bladderwrack. The main stem of bladderwrack — the thallus — is used for medicinal ...

New research has revealed that the decline of kelp forests in the Gulf of Maine is reshaping marine food webs and energy ...

In Alaska, the team at Native Conservancy harvests kelp and prepares a traditional feast. In Alaska, the team at Native Conservancy harvests regenerative kelp in Prince William Sound. Native ...

CAMBRIDGE — Kelp-based foods are making their way onto K-12 school lunch menus — to some surprising reviews. “It’s like heaven on earth,” Agustina Leon Perdomo, a 16-year-old junior at ...

The water-filtering abilities of farmed kelp could help reduce marine pollution in coastal areas, according to a new study. The paper analyzed carbon and nitrogen levels at two mixed-species kelp ...

Parts of the warming Gulf of Maine have become inhospitable for kelp forests, according to new research from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay. Between 2001 and 2018 ...