La Jolla and Point Loma are home to the largest giant kelp forests on the West Coast, but those golden underwater forests are shrinking as ocean temperatures rise. A new study from Scripps Institution ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visitors and divers at the kelp forest habitat at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) The decline of ...

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.

Some exhibits make you pause. This one makes you stop completely. You step closer without thinking. The glass disappears. For a moment, it feels like you are standing inside the ocean itself. It might ...

Struggling kelp forests like those along the California coast show why 'out of sight, out of mind' is not good climate change policy.

Giant kelp forests, an icon of the San Diego coastline, are in retreat as a result of climate change– Off the coast, water ...

Scripps Oceanography scientists hope the findings will aid efforts to restore kelp and bolster its resilience to changing conditions ...

From fantasy photoshoots in the Maldives, to kelp forest "strolls" along California's Catalina Island and Taiwan's luxe hotel ...