To start a kelp-based grooming session, an orca places the bull kelp stipe on its face and nuzzles against another killer ...

For nearly half a century, Brown University marine biologist Jon Witman has been diving Cashes Ledge, an underwater mountain ...

New research from the University of Victoria (UVic) highlights how marine heat waves can dramatically impact marine ...

A research trip to a biodiversity hotspot in the Gulf of Maine underscores the importance of continued monitoring of marine ...

For the first time, orcas have been seen making and using tools out of seaweed. The reason? Most likely as a form of social ...

Kelp has long been used to keep cows healthy but it may also help reduce emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas. A cow sticks her nose into a tub of kelp additive at Larson family dairy near ...

His farm grows kelp. He explains that it has a shelf life of a half-hour and needs to be blanched quickly after it leaves the water to stabilize it, which is expensive and fine to do on a small scale.

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 ...

Kelp forests in the San Juan Islands shrank by about a third from 2006 to 2016 and have fluctuated since then, according to studies of aerial photos by the tribe’s natural resources department.