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KelpFest will be held on Saturday, June 7 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. A kelp talk will be held from 1 to 2 p.m. Meet at the Cobblestones on Main Beach Park.

Kelp captures carbon up to 20 times more than terrestrial forests. It's also a home for marine animals; without kelp, many disappeared — felling fisheries that some supported . Advertisement ...

Giant kelp forests, once thriving along California’s coastline, are now under significant threat from warming waters, overgrazing by sea urchins, and other stressors. By prioritizing evolutionary ...

For nearly half a century, Brown University marine biologist Jon Witman has been diving Cashes Ledge, an underwater mountain ...

A giant sea bass swims amid kelp at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach. Kelp is highly sensitive to environmental changes. Fluctuations in temperature, light availability, nutrients and ...

As the plants grow, they pull carbon out of the air through the process of photosynthesis. Because their decomposition has ...

The macroalga giant kelp, which is an iconic and important ecosystem-structuring species found off the coast of California and many other coastlines, can grow 100-feet long within 1-2 years.

Among the asserted losses are a significant loss of giant kelp forest north of Point La Jolla and low numbers of yellowtail and white seabass. And, of course, ...

Climate change is altering ecosystems around the world. Those changes also come with a financial cost. In this excerpt from our partner Deutshe Welle, or DW’s, Living Planet series, The World’s Host ...