Kelp, large brown algae or seaweeds that grow in shallow oceans, is a nutrient-rich species that grows quickly, helping it to absorb carbon dioxide at a higher rate than other ecosystems ...

A photographer shares the epiphanies she has had while chronicling underwater jungles off the California coast Avery Schuyler Nunn The kelp forest is my favorite ecosystem on Earth. I first began ...

So the USC team came up with an idea to get the best of both worlds, called the kelp elevator. A diagram depicting the ... “The good news is the farm system can be assembled from off-the-shelf ...

Although salmon farms help take pressure off wild stocks ... while the four in the middle contain kelp. An overhead diagram of the setup, with the kelp pens in the middle and the salmon pens ...

These tiny operations barely create ripples within the vast coastal landscape, but kelp—here and elsewhere in North ... and is currently studying the ecosystem benefits of seaweed farms. To scale up, ...