“Kelp is a community resource enjoyed by many, and it will take all of us to understand and protect it for future generations ...

The decline of California's kelp forests since the marine heat wave of 2013–17 has seen only minor recovery despite heroic ...

The study reveals dramatic regional kelp canopy changes along the California coast over a 100-year period. During this time there was a significant increase in kelp forest canopy along the central ...

Sonoma State University kelp researcher Rachael Karm holds up a growing blade of bull kelp at the UC Davis Marine Laboratory in Bodega Bay, Calif. (Carly Nairn/Courthouse News) BODEGA BAY, Calif. (CN) ...

Kelp forests function as major habitat for marine biodiversity, but are in rapid decline worldwide, largely because of climate impacts on the oceans. A 2013 marine heat wave known as “the Blob,” ...

CASPAR BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A welding hammer strapped to her wrist, Joy Hollenback slipped on blue fins and swam into the churning, chilly Pacific surf one fall morning to do her part to save Northern ...

MONTEREY — Within the last century, the recovery of southern sea otters, the unofficial mascot of Central California, has contributed to the health of California’s underwater forests according to a ...

CASPAR, Calif. -- A welding hammer strapped to her wrist, Joy Hollenback slipped on blue fins and swam into the churning, chilly Pacific surf one fall morning to do her part to save Northern ...

A welding hammer strapped to her wrist, Joy Hollenback slipped on blue fins and swam into the churning, chilly Pacific surf one fall morning to do her part to save Northern California's vanishing kelp ...

On the first day I lived in Northern California, I stood on the beach and stared at a golden-green object washed up on the sand — a shining coil with a perfect bulb at one end. It was, I learned, a ...

By Andrew DeVogelaere Giant kelp and bull kelp forests create habitats that support an amazing diversity of sea life, and their floating canopies are a prominent feature at the surface of California ...

FORT BRAGG, U.S. — In 2024, I was scuba diving in Northern California’s Casper Cove where the Watermen’s Alliance, a group of ex-abalone sports divers, has been culling purple urchins since 2020. It ...