The marine snail, known for its beautiful iridescent shell but sought ... But the divers’ craft is changing as the coast’s kelp forest — an abalone home — has succumbed to urchins.

consumers and scavengers in a kelp forest. draw and label the parts of a kelp plant. identify human uses of kelp. Beautiful and biologically complex kelp plants grow underwater and create ...

The long golden-brown strands of bull kelp that wash up along Washington’s shores might seem like just beach debris, but... Read Story ...

The rich resources of Pacific kelp forests helped humans populate the Americas. Now depleted by as much as 95 percent, they need our help to recover.

When sea otters were reintroduced along the coastlines of islands in Southern California and British Columbia, researchers saw kelp forests return to areas that were destroyed by sea urchins.

A sea otter floating above ribbons of kelp is undoubtedly one of nature’s cutest scenes. It’s well known that the marine mammals help make these sea surface ‘pillows’ more abundant, by ...