Over the past 134 years, the giant kelp forests off the coast of Southern California have been studied by marine scientists at labs such as UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La ...

Somewhere off the coast of South Africa, a small, inflatable fishing vessel motors out a mile or so in search of a mature seaweed forest. The crew is there to harvest a unique brown kelp, Ecklonia ...

(ENN) -- As houses slid down California cliffs this winter as a result of El Niño's battering winds and rain, marine scientists were busy studying the effects of El Nino on the ocean floor. Jim Estes, ...

Marine scientists have a new view of the giant kelp in the Pacific Ocean–through a scuba mask and a satellite’s “eye.” Forests of giant kelp, or Macrocystis pyrifera, are found in temperate coastal ...

WHEN I enter a forest on land, I feel like an intruder, crunching dead twigs and dry leaves underfoot, sending deer and birds into flight. But there is a sense of privilege in descending quietly into ...

The top of the kelp forest emerges from the surface of the Monterey Bay recently as a pelican wings by a resting paddler near Lighthouse Point in Santa Cruz. Held upright by gas-filled bladders at the ...