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A year ago, The Daily Herald wrote about Washington’s plan to protect and preserve kelp and seagrass (“A scramble to save Puget Sound’s precious kelp and eelgrass,” The Herald, April, 10). At some ...

New Zealand's first legislated marine reserve, established 50 years ago around Te Hāwere-a-Maki/Goat Island north of Auckland ...

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, ...

Sea stars could play a key role in protecting threatened kelp forests, according to new research from University of Oregon and Oregon State University scientists. The study, published Wednesday in ...

SAN PEDRO, Calif. (KABC) -- Before the Super Bowl kicks off in Los Angeles this February, the NFL environmental program is cleaning up the community. NFL Green and the Los Angeles Super Bowl Host ...

While kelp forests persist along northern Maine’s rocky coast, kelp abundance has declined by as much as 80% on the southern coast in recent decades. In its stead, carpet-like turf algae have moved in ...

Their fur is so soft it almost led to their extinction, but otters’ recovery has been a boon to Pacific kelp forests, a key ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography is ready for spooky season! Guests can expect to be greeted with a giant skeleton in the Giant Kelp Forest as part of ...

PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Marine Science Center has opened a new exhibit, Bull Kelp: Our Remarkable Underwater Forests, at its visitors center. “We’ve just launched a new exhibit at Flagship ...