Along the Monterey Peninsula, “urchin barrens” with no kelp (foreground) are interspersed with remnant patches of kelp forest (background). (Photo by Michael Langhans) In 2019, researchers found a ...

While free diving to photograph kelp forests along the California coastline, I’ve viscerally felt the consequences of finiteness as a living being—the fleeting nature of a single breath ...

For the last 50 years, kelp abundance has declined globally by 1.8 percent annually, and somewhere between 40 and 60 percent of the planet’s kelp forests have been degraded.

Giant kelp is the common name for Macrocystis pyrifera, a species of alga that grows into lush underwater forests along the coast of the northeastern Pacific Ocean, from Baja California north to ...

There is no easy answer to arrest the decline in kelp forests—but efforts are underway to help them recover. Volunteer divers armed with hammers and other tools are culling purple sea urchins in ...

Inside, an experiment is playing out that gives a badly needed boost to Northern California’s kelp forests — underwater cathedrals of green and gold that nearly vanished from the north coast a ...

Kelp forests have declined across the world and governments ... with bull kelp reaching 20% of the historical density while little to no kelp growth happened in the control area.

The top of the kelp forest emerges from the surface of the Monterey Bay recently as a pelican wings by a resting paddler near Lighthouse Point in Santa Cruz. Held upright by gas-filled bladders at ...

Over the last 50 years, the changing climate, poor water quality, and overfishing have damaged between 40-60 percent of our kelp forests ... communities in Maine are no different,” said Senator ...

Scott Groth / Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Port Orford, a place Hamilton knows well, no longer has thriving kelp forests. Meanwhile, a spot near Cape Foulweather is bursting with life ...

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 ...