Dive into South Africa’s kelp forests and uncover their role in conservation, climate resilience and marine ecosystems.

This article was originally published by Hakai Magazine. Kelp is common along temperate shorelines around the world. For millennia, this large brown algae has been vital to coastal Indigenous peoples.

Years of almost non-stop marine heatwaves are stressing New Zealand’s kelp forests. But as we show in our new research, ongoing ocean warming is only one of several threats to these unique and ...

Kelp forests grow along more than one-quarter of the world’s coastlines, and are among the planet’s most biodiverse ecosystems. But these critical habitats are disappearing due to warming oceans and ...

The mounds of kelp washed ashore Orange County beaches by recent storms is a visual not so common in recent years. The brown leafy algae had been under attack from a non-native species known as ...

Just off the Elliott Bay waterfront, beneath and around piers and ferries, a mystery grows by the day — up to several feet per day, in fact. Thick forests of brown-green bull kelp wave ribbonlike ...

In the 1980s, so much kelp washed onto beaches west of Brighton that the “unsightliness” of the seaweed and the flies it attracted made it a problem worthy of debate in the UK parliament. Farmers took ...

Over a recent weekend in Two Harbors, a little town on Catalina Island’s remote northern shores, I donned a wetsuit, strapped on some fins and set off in a kayak to explore the pristine coves around ...

Exploring the evolutionary journey of brown algae using genomic analysis unraveling key milestones that influenced their evolution, and discussing their potential applications. Covering over 70% of ...