Marine biologists a family history of San Diego's giant kelp over more than four decades

The growth form of giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) is composed of shoots known as stipes instead of branches. From one ...

‘A profound shift’: Study sheds light on decades of kelp health — and decline — near La Jolla

Scripps Oceanography scientists hope the findings will aid efforts to restore kelp and bolster its resilience to changing conditions ...
WESA

New kelp fossils may help explain the Pacific Ocean's underwater jungles

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 ...
Alaska Public Media

Greenwave opens kelp nursery in Kodiak to reduce cost for farmers and increase production

Alaska’s newest kelp hatchery recently finished its first growing season in a mobile shipping container in Kodiak. The ...
Earth.com

Kelp forests return to Peru’s coast after restoration project

Young kelp forests are returning to Peru after scientists replanted giant seaweed, creating habitat for fish and restoring ...
NPR

New fossils suggest kelp forests have swayed in the seas for at least 32 million years

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, ...

Longest-ever study of giant kelp finds San Diego’s ocean forest in decline

La Jolla and Point Loma are home to the largest giant kelp forests on the West Coast, but those golden underwater forests are ...
Hartford Courant

How CT’s sugar kelp farmers are navigating their way into new markets

For most of Connecticut’s agriculture sector, the harvest has already concluded by this time of year. But for a new crop of farmers growing sugar kelp in the waters of the Long Island Sound, planting ...