The kelp forests that hug the Pacific coastline are an underwater jungle. They're a thicket of colossal algae intermixed with a pageant of life that includes snails, urchins, sea lions, sea otters ...

Kelp can help to fortify the environment amid warming temperatures. Underwater forests could be the answer to helping to mitigate the environment from the impacts of climate change, experts told ...

Salomé Buglass discovered an unexpected kelp forest while studying underwater mountains in the Galapagos. Kelp—a type of seaweed—usually grows in shallower, cooler areas. So why was an entire ...

Kelp Ark’s divers observed these challenging conditions firsthand during an initial post-fire collection trip on Jan. 27. Days earlier, the first significant rains since May sent contaminants ...

Bull kelp colonization is a high-stakes game of first come, first served. At any one time, there are an estimated 70 million individual chunks of bull kelp riding the currents of the Southern Ocean.