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

play a vital role in kelp forest recovery, but their level of influence depends on what other species they interact with in salty Pacific Ocean waters. The study, published today in PNAS ...

It doesn’t get any better than the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which has a living kelp forest ... and fair food just steps from the Pacific Ocean. Head across town and into the forest to one of ...

They focused on a group of organisms that form the very basis of Arctic coastal ecosystems—brown macroalgae, known as kelps, which form dense and extensive underwater forests along rocky coastlines.

Additionally, seafood production could drop by up to 7 percent as aquatic ecosystems lose the algae that forms the base of their food webs ... in forests, grasslands and kelp beds than researchers ...