Pacific Kelp Co. is working with two university researchers to study the benefits of their kelp extract as fertilizer. If it ...

A sea otter floating above ribbons of kelp is undoubtedly one of nature’s cutest scenes. It’s well known that the marine mammals help make these sea surface ‘pillows’ more abundant, by eating the sea ...

But for a new crop of farmers growing sugar kelp in the waters of the Long Island Sound, planting season is just wrapping up and the seeds are germinating under the surface. By mid-spring ...

The rich resources of Pacific kelp forests helped humans populate the Americas. Now depleted by as much as 95 percent, they need our help to recover. 4:03 The kelp forests off the coast of ...

draw and label the parts of a kelp plant. identify human uses of kelp. Beautiful and biologically complex kelp plants grow underwater and create underwater kelp forests in the rocky coastline ...

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, ...

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 ...

SPECIAL MENTION: Kelp jerky is not only a nutritious snack, its production could help fight climate change. Kelp is an underwater crop that draws in carbon and nitrogen from the oceans.

When sea otters were reintroduced along the coastlines of islands in Southern California and British Columbia, researchers saw kelp forests return to areas that were destroyed by sea urchins.

by eating the sea urchins that nibble away at the plant. A study last year strengthened the link between recovering sea otter populations and the long-term health of kelp forests – the towering ...