These efforts will not only focus on Tasmania but also extend to mainland Australia, aiming to accurately map out the surviving kelp forests. Secondly, the initiative will identify strains of ...

The massive network of rocky reefs that lines much of southern Australia’s coastline is a shadowy cold-water underworld dominated by brown seaweeds known as kelp. The Great Southern Reef might not be ...

Bull kelp provides food and shelter for salmon, Southern Resident orcas, sunflower stars, pinto abalone, rockfish, harbor ...

Loading YouTube content The marine scientist from environmental nonprofit The Nature Conservancy explains that a dramatic rise in sea urchin numbers has decimated the golden kelp forests that ...

This phenomenon is particularly high in the kelp forests of Australia's Great Southern Reef, which stretches 8,000 km from ...

A University of Portsmouth scientist has helped give a unique glimpse into the beautiful underwater forests, which create ...

In fact, they lost about 95% of their bull kelp forests around that time. So we knew that from Northern California, to Australia, to Norway, there were so many places where kelp forests were ...

Kelp forests are a very dynamic ecosystem, so any valid study of adverse effects would need to include multiple possible suspects ...

Leafy seadragons only live along the western coast of Australia, hiding amongst kelp, other seaweeds and seagrass. But the kelp beds they rely on are becoming increasingly damaged by human activity ...

A regenerative fishery and kelp restoration project launched by Norwegian ocean tech company Ava Ocean has received official ...

Now, Commercial Fishermen of Santa Barbara are teaming up with UC Santa Barbara researchers to remove them. Jenn Caselle is a ...

sea otters consume voracious kelp-eating sea urchins at a high enough rate that kelp forests continue to persist and provide habitat for numerous species. Without sea otters, sea urchins devour ...