Bull kelp — while unassuming — is an essential fixture in the marine ecosystem up and down the West Coast. The expansive underwater forests provide protection for vulnerable sea creatures, including ...

Sea otters play a vital role in maintaining the balance of sensitive kelp forests. Hidden beneath the surface of our coastal seas are towering forests - of kelp. These underwater ecosystems are as ...

Explore California’s thriving freediving and spearfishing communities—where ocean culture, conservation, and coastal ...

MENDOCINO COUNTY, Calif. - Scientists are in a race right now to save underwater kelp forests along much of the California coastline that are being devoured by a species of sea urchin. Researchers say ...

Seaweed will be on the agenda when a House Natural Resources panel examines legislation to provide more federal assistance for struggling kelp forests. Seaweed could get a boost on Capitol Hill this ...

The kelp forests that hug the Pacific coastline are an underwater jungle, a thicket of colossal algae intermixed with a pageant of life - snails, urchins, sea lions, sea otters. Now there's new proof ...

Newly discovered kelp fossils peg their existence to 32 million years ago. These fossils may help explain how the Pacific Ocean's underwater 'forests' came to be. The kelp forests that hug the Pacific ...