Kelp farming is catching on in Maine as a way to sustain working class coastal communities while supporting ecosystems and ...

This breakthrough is especially important in the water world of kelp forests, a highly valuable ecosystem that is threatened by warming waters and rising storms as the climate heats up.

Fire consumes vegetation that would otherwise hold soil in place and alters soil chemistry so that it absorbs less water. This massive infusion of sediment disrupts kelp's access to two things it ...

The kelp forests provided habitat, nursery and feeding grounds for marine wildlife, and held huge quantities of carbon, improved water quality and reduced coastal erosion, campaigners said.