Pacific Kelp Co. is working with two university researchers to study the benefits of their kelp extract as fertilizer. If it ...

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

Kelp may be one of the first species to show how coastal ecosystems will respond to the L.A. fires. These forests of fast-growing brown algae provide food and habitat for hundreds of marine ...

The ocean covers two-thirds of the planet and is home to 80 per cent of all animal life. Yet we know little about it.

Adorably fuzzy sea otters aren’t just cute. The marine mammals serve a crucial role, helping to restore the giant kelp ...

The boat bobbed gently off Malibu’s Big Rock Beach as a trio of scientific divers wriggled into wetsuits and double-checked tanks and regulators. Behind them unfurled a panorama of devastation ...

Adorably fuzzy sea otters aren’t just cute. The marine mammals serve a crucial role, helping to restore the giant kelp forests they rely on by removing their top predators, the sea urchins.

Seaweed aquaculture is an emerging global industry estimated to be worth over $14 billion dollars US in 2019. “Seaweed is an ...

She developed a Post-Fire Kelp Recovery Index to compare kelp canopy extent after a fire to its historical average. The team found that mature giant kelp beds shrank after the 2016 Soberanes fire in ...