The rich resources of Pacific kelp forests helped humans populate the Americas. Now depleted by as much as 95 percent, they ...

A study last year strengthened the link between recovering sea otter populations and the long-term health of kelp forests – the towering brown algae that provide food and shelter for thousands of ...

To determine how much kelp was protected, the scientists took an existing kelp forest biome distribution map and remapped the distributions in higher resolution and with greater accuracy.

When sea otters were reintroduced along the coastlines of islands in Southern California and British Columbia, researchers saw kelp forests return to areas that were destroyed by sea urchins.

Project also includes 5,000 images of waters around the Falklands and according to scientists kelp forests are the foundation of the Islands coastal ecosystem Kelp forests grow along coastlines ...

You could ask students to research where else in the world naturally occurring forests of giant kelp might be found and map these, noting climate zones and biomes. For example, in some kelp ...

The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned NOAA Fisheries today to grant Endangered Species Act protection to bull kelp, which faces grave threats from climate change and coastal development. The ...

New modeling method helped researchers understand why kelp forests returned more slowly in Southern California than in British Columbia. When sea otters were reintroduced along the coastlines of ...