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

Sea otters help recover the kelp forests they depend on. Now scientists know how - While threatened by climate change, otters ...

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 ...

"You can fly up through the canopy, you can drop down to the bottom — so it's like being able to fly through a forest." ...

They determined that while kelp forests had grown back in both British ... susceptibility to white shark bites through losses in kelp canopy cover, and decreasing some prey availability through ...

These forests of fast-growing brown algae provide ... She developed a Post-Fire Kelp Recovery Index to compare kelp canopy extent after a fire to its historical average. The team found that ...

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.

Kelp forests tower above the ocean floor ... susceptibility to white shark bites through losses in kelp canopy cover, and decreasing some prey availability through ocean acidification.