“Kelp is a community resource enjoyed by many, and it will take all of us to understand and protect it for future generations.” ...
La Jolla and Point Loma are home to the largest giant kelp forests on the West Coast, but those golden underwater forests are ...
SANTA CRUZ — To underscore the urgency of responding to the steep decline in kelp forests, filmmaker Natasha Benjamin posits an alarming hypothetical: what if 95% of California’s redwoods were to ...
SAN DIEGO — A California aquarium‘s Halloween spirit runs deep – 12 feet under, to be exact. The Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography added a fake skeleton from Home Depot to its ...
The decline of California's kelp forests since the marine heat wave of 2013–17 has seen only minor recovery despite heroic efforts at restoration carried out by scientists, fishermen, coastal tribes, ...
Giant kelp and bull kelp forests create habitats that support an amazing diversity of sea life, and their floating canopies are a prominent feature at the surface of California coastal waters.