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

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

The documentary Sequoias of the Sea explore the challenges facing kelp ecosystems in California. It will screen at the Ocean ...

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.

And because this is one of the lowest tides this August, the water has drawn back like a curtain to expose an ecosystem that’s normally hidden away — a place called the rocky intertidal, or, because ...

But while kelp grew back off both coasts, forests in British ... and other species in California, which slowed down the ...

They determined that while kelp forests had grown back in both British Columbia and Southern California, they regenerated faster off British Columbia. So, they developed a model to create a ...

California's giant kelp faces a ... They'd seen all the animals a diver would expect to see in a kelp forest, such as garibaldi fish and kelp bass. But the only signs of the big brown algae ...

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 ...

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.