The boat bobbed gently off Malibu’s Big Rock Beach as a trio of scientific divers wriggled into wetsuits and double-checked tanks and regulators. Behind them unfurled a panorama of devastation from ...

Adorably fuzzy sea otters aren’t just cute. The marine mammals serve a crucial role, helping to restore the giant kelp ...

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — From the grounds of a gas-fired power plant on the eastern shores of Canada, a little-known ...

Arctic kelp absorbs metals from melting glaciers, increasing mercury levels by 72%. This could harm marine life and fisheries ...

The rich resources of Pacific kelp forests helped humans populate the Americas. Now depleted by as much as 95 percent, they ...

TACOMA, Wash. — A baby sea lion toting an artificial kelp strip was filmed performing intricate rhythmic gymnastics-esque ...

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

The long golden-brown strands of bull kelp that wash up along Washington’s shores might seem like just beach debris, but they ...

Pismo clams, once abundant along the California coast, are being grown and studied in a middle school classroom.

A group of microscopic sunflower sea star larva arrived at Shedd Aquarium last year and have been bulking up behind the ...

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 ...