Divers recently sought evidence of the Palisades fire's underwater toll, particularly its effect on a vital anchor of the ...

A new study sheds light on the power of keystone species, which could help ecologists in other environments. View on euronews ...

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

Today, we find algae in our food, in both ordinary and unexpected places. Brown algae, especially kelp, are used to extract another gel-forming product called algin. Algin absorbs water to make gels ...

In the oceans, a new type of large brown algae, called kelp, latched onto rocks and corals in cool shallow waters, establishing a new habitat favored by sea otters and dugongs, a marine mammal ...

by feeding on sea urchins they in turn maintained the health of kelp forests -- dense groups of brown algae that are rich in biodiversity and provide shelter to many species. Estes, University of ...

Researchers found that climate change induced glacial melt increases the heavy metal content and changes the microbiome of habitat-forming brown algae in Arctic fjords. As algae are at the basis of ...

and examples include the brown seaweeds called sargassum and kelp. Sargassum floats near the water’s surface, while kelp is anchored to rocks on the ocean floor. Both of these types of algae feed and ...