The southern coast of Chile appears to be a safe haven for giant kelp forests (Macrocystis pyrifera). With stalks up to 60 meters long, these algae form underwater forests in coastal waters of the ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 56, No. 1 (2011), pp. 119-132 (14 pages) We experimentally investigated the response of phytoplankton and understory macroalgae to canopies of giant kelp, Macrocystis ...

Kelp Blue now employs dozens of Namibians. In the company’s lab, young Namibian women grow kelp spores—starting at one or two millimeters in size—until the algae is large enough to attach to ...

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. Among much else, the trees shelter marine life, ...

It’s made not of trees but of strands of giant kelp, a species of algae that can grow taller than a 10-story building. Tethered to the seafloor and buoyed by air-filled chambers, ...

KelpFest will be held on Saturday, June 7 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. A kelp talk will be held from 1 to 2 p.m. Meet at the Cobblestones on Main Beach Park.

Sunlight filters down through a canopy of giant kelp to the understory algae below. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by ...

1. If you think algae are just plants living in water, think again. The mostly aquatic organisms produce oxygen through photosynthesis, though they lack many of the other defining traits of plants, ...

For example, 1ha of giant kelp forest produces 1–2t of fresh kelp daily. In comparison, other kelp species – such as golden kelp (Ecklonia radiata) – that are now replacing the giant kelp produce an ...

Researchers are comparing their pervasiveness to giant kelp forests of the more temperate Pacific coast of California. SOUNDBITE: Chuck Amsler, Phycologist, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham: “You ...