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 ...

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 ...

Puget Sound was a global kelp capital for millennia. If we work together, we can enlist the next generation of ...

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

U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman and U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley seek to allocate federal funds to address declining kelp forests, crucial ...

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, there are the restrictions on human ...

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 ...