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Restoring underwater kelp forests by culling overgrazing sea urchins would deliver significant financial benefits, a new ...
To start a kelp-based grooming session, an orca places the bull kelp stipe on its face and nuzzles against another killer ...
The collapse of kelp forests is already severely impacting marine species and coastal communities. And it’s getting worse. Abalone — large sea snails that feed on kelp — have drastically reduced in ...
Restoring Port Phillip Bay’s dwindling kelp forests by culling overgrazing sea urchins would deliver more than $92 million in ...
The kelp forest provides food and shelter for thousands of species – including the sea otters. Along with coral reefs, kelp forests only account for 0.1% however, they account for 0.9% of global ...
Various fish species, including cunner and the pollock — the two dominant fish species identified in the study — swim off Cashes Ledge through some of the healthy kelp forest that remains in ...
Highly productive kelp forests are being touted as a natural climate solution, but do we know enough to count them as such?
KelpFest will be held on Saturday, June 7 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. A kelp talk will be held from 1 to 2 p.m. Meet at the Cobblestones on Main Beach Park.
Kelp forests are some of the most productive ecosystems on Earth. Giant kelp, a kind of algae, can grow up to 18 inches per day, and the trees reach more than ten stories tall at full growth .
Dubbed "allokelping," it might be a unique cultural phenomenon that's as endangered as the orca population itself ...
If the keystone species puts a check on urchins, allowing kelp forests to heal, we could recover an economic driver and a powerful tool for fighting climate change. Kelp captures carbon up to 20 ...
Various fish species, including cunner and the pollock — the two dominant fish species identified in the study — swim off Cashes Ledge through some of the healthy kelp forest that remains in ...