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

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

We were amazed when we first noticed this behavior,” said Michael Weiss, research director at the Center for Whale Research in the U.S. state of Washington. What started as a puzzling observation in ...

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

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 forest is my favorite ecosystem on Earth. I first began diving into these nearshore waters off the California coast three years ago. Shortly after, I began taking my camera down with me ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Kelp forests provide essential food, habitat and clean water for a rich marine ecosystem on Maine’s coast, but these forests are in flux due to the pressures of rising ocean temperatures. Brian ...