Marissa Davenport, 50, felt hopeless when she started to notice her hair breaking and falling out after working so hard to ...

Keel Labs’ Kelsun material is made from kelp, one of the most regenerative materials on the planet.

A new economic modeling tool is helping Maine kelp farmers identify cost-saving strategies with remarkable precision. By ...

A new modeling tool helps kelp farmers uncover major cost-saving strategies by analyzing real-world conditions and farm ...

Kelp has long been used to keep cows healthy but it may also help reduce emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas. A cow sticks her nose into a tub of kelp additive at Larson family dairy near Ottertail ...

The mounds of kelp that recently washed onto local beaches point to a thriving offshore ecosystem created by restoration efforts over the past decade, experts say. Ten years ago, there was practically ...

The Santa Barbara Channel’s kelp forests and its sandy beaches are intimately connected. Giant kelp, the foundation species of rocky reefs, serves as a major part of the beach food web as fronds of ...

describe characteristics of a kelp forest ecosystem. explain the interactions between habitats and species. give examples of producers, consumers and scavengers in a kelp forest. draw and label the ...

Researchers examining a century of ocean maps made an exciting discovery linking sea otter populations to kelp forests: Where sea otters thrive, so do these critical underwater habitats. The research ...

Here’s a fun fact: In a healthy environment, kelp can grow up to two feet a day. Here’s another (not so fun, yet still relevant) fact: Kelp forests in many places off the California coast have been ...

Researcher Jose Luis Kappes prepares to enter a dense Chilean kelp bed to collect reproductive fronds. (Jordan Hollarsmith/UC Davis) When a marine heat wave hit California’s coast in 2014, it brought ...

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