WASHINGTON – Sens. Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Angus King of Maine have teamed up with Representative Jared Huffman (D-CA-02) to introduce the bicameral Help Our Kelp Act. Over the last 50 years, the ...

Kelp forests are valuable and iconic habitats of the central coast of California. Indeed, kelp forests are truly iconic to Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary and are prominently featured at the ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The weathered UC Davis Marine Laboratory looms in thick fog on the edge of the ocean near Bodega Bay. Inside, an experiment is playing out that gives a badly needed boost to ...

The kelp forests that hug the Pacific coastline are an underwater jungle. They're a thicket of colossal algae intermixed with a pageant of life that includes snails, urchins, sea lions, sea otters, ...

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, a team ...

A new report spells out exactly how much Oregon’s kelp forests have dwindled over the past decade or so — and the picture is bleak. According to a status report released by the Oregon Kelp Alliance in ...

MONTEREY — Within the last century, the recovery of southern sea otters, the unofficial mascot of Central California, has contributed to the health of California’s underwater forests according to a ...

​Researchers, who published their findings in Science, discovered that these algae emit allelopathic compounds into the water ...

The Washington state Department of Natural Resources and the Squaxin Island Tribe have announced a partnership to conserve the Squaxin Island Kelp Bed, the last major kelp bed in South Puget Sound.

Some animals matter so much to their ecosystems that losing them is like removing the keystone from an arch—the entire structure begins to collapse. These keystone species shape food webs, carve out ...