Tasmania's kelp forests will once again flourish. The bay is the site of a restoration project that aims to regrow the unique ...

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

Ade Adepitan travels to Tasmania to find out about the work being done to protect the carbon-capturing underwater kelp forests. ADE: Hi, I’m Ade and I’m here in Tasmania which is a beautiful ...

Giant kelp forests used to stretch all along the east coast of Tasmania. Today, however, it's disappearing catastrophically fast. In certain places only 5% of its original amount remains.

Help for the kelp. Tasmania’s forests of giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) are dying as climate change shifts ocean currents, bringing warm water to the east coast of the temperate Australian ...

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.

The long golden-brown strands of bull kelp that wash up along Washington’s shores might seem like just beach debris, but they ...

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.