The Oregon Kelp Alliance has issued a status report on kelp forests. A new report spells out exactly how much Oregon’s kelp forests have dwindled over the past decade or so — and the picture is bleak.

Lacking natural predators and able to survive long after food sources are diminished, purple sea urchins are devastating kelp forests, an important carbon sink. The founders of a Newport startup have ...

A kelp forest off the coast of Northern California is practically gone. An estimated 95% of it has vanished over the last eight years. That’s a problem for marine life that depends on it for food and ...

MONTEREY — Within the last century, the recovery of southern sea otters, the unofficial mascot of Central California, has contributed to the health of California’s underwater forests according to a ...

North Coast U.S. Rep. 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 ...

CASPAR BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A welding hammer strapped to her wrist, Joy Hollenback slipped on blue fins and swam into the churning, chilly Pacific surf one fall morning to do her part to save Northern ...

I felt energized and blessed to spend a day on the waters of picturesque Goleta Bay Wednesday, March 27 to help deploy a new kelp restoration reef, which I expect will work wonders to restore a ...

MONTEREY — Within the last century, the recovery of southern sea otters, the unofficial mascot of Central California, has contributed to the health of California’s underwater forests according to a ...

“Help Our Kelp Act” would authorize $5 million a year in a new grant program to fund conservation, restoration, and management projects focused on kelp forest ecosystems. North Coast U.S. Rep. Jared ...

CASPAR BEACH, Calif. — A welding hammer strapped to her wrist, Joy Hollenback slipped on blue fins and swam into the churning, chilly Pacific surf one fall morning to do her part to save Northern ...