New research from the University of Victoria (UVic) has found that some kelp forests around Vancouver Island were ...

Satellite records show that most of the loss occurred between 1972 and 1984 — well before the kelp losses documented during ...

First the sea stars wasted to nothing. Then the purple urchins took over, eating and eating until the bull kelp forests were gone. The red abalone starved. Their fishery closed. Red sea urchins ...

A new study from the University of Victoria suggests the collapse of some kelp forests around Vancouver Island began decades ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bull kelp acts as a natural carbon sink, reducing greenhouse gas concentrations and mitigating the impacts of global warming.

Beyond tall cliffs and Whidbey’s southernmost beach lies a 90-acre underwater forest wrapping around almost the entirety of Possession Point. Rows and rows of bull kelp filter the morning light ...

A decade after they vanished from the ocean, the discovery of this lost colony of sunflower sea stars offers new hope for ...

The Center for Biological Diversity on Thursday submitted a petition to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to grant endangered status to the long stalks of kelp that are critical to ...

Since a marine heatwave that happened from 2013 to 2015, there have been important ecosystem changes on the Oregon Coast. The populations of bull kelp, sunflower sea stars and other important marine ...

MEADOWDALE — When bull kelp washes ashore in the fall, it’s almost too tempting for any kid to leave alone. It provides a ready-made whip or, if cut right, a natural wind instrument. The slick, ...

As Puget Sound temperatures increase, bull kelp struggles to stay alive. Between 2013 and 2018, researchers at the Washington Department of Natural Resources studied four bull kelp beds in south Puget ...

First the sea stars wasted to nothing. Then purple urchins took over, eating and eating until the bull kelp forests were gone. The red abalone starved. Their fishery closed. Red sea urchins starved.