For nearly half a century, Brown University marine biologist Jon Witman has been diving Cashes Ledge, an underwater mountain ...

A research trip to a biodiversity hotspot in the Gulf of Maine underscores the importance of continued monitoring of marine ...

In this video, we're revealing the top scuba diving destination in the United States, as named by PADI. This spot, just a ferry ride from Los Angeles, is famous for its towering kelp forests and ...

The Monterey Bay’s kelp forests used to support more than 1,000 marine species, including fish, snails, crabs and charismatic sea otters. But many of those species moved on when the urchins ...

A research trip to a biodiversity hotspot in the Gulf of Maine underscores the importance of continued monitoring of marine ...

Kelp forests are underwater thickets of algae that keep the world’s oceans rich with biodiversity. And scientists just offered a strong financial argument for keeping them healthy.

Julieta Gomez a kelp restoration specialist looks over a sample of bull kelp growing in an outdoor tank Oct. 9 at The UC Davis Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute’s Bodega Marine Laboratory in ...

Rachel Kippen, Our Ocean Backyard | Dive into a… Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) ...

Joshua Smith has been diving in kelp forests in Monterey Bay along the central coast of California since 2012. Back then, he says, things looked very different. Being underwater was like being in ...

California volunteer divers are taking part in a pilot project to crush purple urchins, which have contributed to the destruction of 96% of the state's bull kelp forests.

Kelp forests are made up of thick, undulating ribbons of brown algae that hang on to rocks at the seafloor and grow toward the light above. Kelp is found in dense groups, like trees on land, hence ...

Between 2001 and 2018, a team led by senior research scientist Doug Rasher combined dive surveys of kelp population and data on ocean temperature to compile the first detailed census of Maine's ...