The boat bobbed gently off Malibu's Big Rock Beach as a trio of scientific divers wriggled into wet suits and double-checked ...

Kelp, in particular, has the potential to greatly reduce ocean acidification. Naturally occurring in cold, coastal marine waters, kelp grows quickly without the need for fertilizer, and it takes ...

Deep sea fisherman Roman Fedortsov reeled in an alien-like creature from the northern part of the Pacific Ocean and posted the spine-tingling footage online ...

This is particularly important to note in the Gulf of Maine, which is the fastest-warming body of water in the world. Productive kelp farms here play a role in the fight against global warming ...

Chef Andrew Wilkinson of North Coast Seafoods hands out samples of kelp "meatballs" at an Introduction to Global Public Health class. (Photos by Lee Pellegrini) A new nutritious, sustainable, ...

Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) and U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) reintroduced a bill that aims to allocate federal funds to address declining kelp forests, crucial for marine biodiversity.

People in the Pacific Northwest and around the world watched last month as a mother carried her dead child hundreds of miles in a display of grief akin to a funeral procession. But the grieving ...

Kelp may be one of the first species to show how coastal ecosystems will respond to the L.A. fires. These forests of fast-growing brown algae provide food and habitat for hundreds of marine ...

A giant sea bass swims amid kelp at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach. Kelp is highly sensitive to environmental changes. Fluctuations in temperature, light availability, nutrients and ...