Using only fins, divers wild-harvest abalone off eastern Australia’s coast. The marine snail, known for its beautiful ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

INTERACTIVE! Want to know what it's like to dive through a kelp forest? Now you can in this 360 video! We recommend a mobile device for viewing this interactive video - this works best using the ...

Credit: Jeff Maassen photo A new project is underway to restore kelp forests in the Santa Barbara Channel by removing sea urchins and selling them to restaurants or turning them into agricultural ...

Ade Adepitan travels to Tasmania to find out about the work being done to protect the carbon-capturing underwater kelp forests ... island off the south coast of Australia and I’m here to ...

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 ...