If another voracious sea urchin predator hadn’t been hunted to regional extinction 100 years ago, the disease might not have affected kelp forests to such a degree. Although sea otters have spread ...

Beneath the surface, these swaying kelp forests create habitats for sea stars, rockfish, abalone, and more. Globally, kelp forest collapse is becoming more common due to climate change, pollution ...

Kelp forests are some of the most productive ecosystems on Earth. Giant kelp, a kind of algae, can grow up to 18 inches per day, and the trees reach more than ten stories tall at full growth.

Underwater gardeners work to restore B.C.’s majestic kelp forests By: Nono Shen, The Canadian Press Posted: 8:00 AM CDT Monday, Jul. 1, 2024 Last Modified: 8:55 AM CDT Monday, Jul. 1, 2024 ...

“It’s a really beautiful, quite special experience to go diving into kelp forests . It’s like you were walking weightless in space, but it has a forest around you,” said Prof. Coleman.

Some kelp species, like giant kelp, can grow as fast as 45cm in a single day, reaching heights of 45 metres! Pretty impressive for something that isn't even a plant.

Sea urchins have no brains or hearts. But put them in the proximity of the unmistakable sunflower sea star, and somewhere in ...

Century-old maps are helping track B.C.'s kelp forests — and their discovery was kind of an accident Using British admiralty charts from 1858-1956, research team has created digital map of ...

Reforesting ocean floors with kelp is “challenging work,” she said, with divers having to plant the kelp, monitor its growth, and measure its hardiness in different conditions.