Ongoing beach and bluff closures encourage more and more marine mammals to congregate in north La Jolla and harm the delicate ...

Fragments of seaweed are often caught in deep-sea trawls, or recorded by submarines and underwater robots ... This phenomenon ...

Here, blue rockfish navigate the upper layers of the kelp forest. Shafts of light breaking through the canopy are causing their colours to shimmer. Although he didn’t grow up by water, Sage has always ...

This baby kelp will be ... to bring back giant kelp forests,” he said. “In our previous work supported by Sea Forest, we’ve demonstrated we can regrow these underwater trees and even patches ...

Interestingly, not all underwater forests are lifeless; some feature cypress or mangrove trees that have specialised roots allowing them to survive while submerged. Kelp forests also represent ...

The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned NOAA Fisheries today to grant Endangered Species Act protection to bull kelp, which faces grave threats from climate change and coastal development. The ...

Ade Adepitan travels to Tasmania to find out about the work being done to protect the carbon-capturing underwater kelp forests. ADE: Hi, I’m Ade and I’m here in Tasmania which is a beautiful ...