There's a rallying cry at various bays and beaches up and down the West Coast; it's "Help the kelp!" The towering brown seaweed with the floating bulb on top is in steep decline. That's alarming ...

Dirigo Sea Farm Lab Assistant Jack Tennant tests the kelp solution, which he calls "the magic goop," at the lab facility in Blue Hill, Maine. (Molly Enking/Maine Public) In recent years, products like ...

Kelp forests are valuable and iconic habitats of the central coast of California. Indeed, kelp forests are truly iconic to Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary and are prominently featured at the ...

PACIFIC GROVE – The bull kelp forests of the Pacific Coast began to decline in 2013. A perfect storm of events —a climate-induced marine heatwave, a strong El Niño season and the explosion in ...

The water-filtering abilities of farmed kelp could help reduce marine pollution in coastal areas, according to a new study. The paper analyzed carbon and nitrogen levels at two mixed-species kelp ...

Seaweed and kelp products have already become a major industry. This is the gang at Polar Algae in Hammerfest. Their years of experience are now being boosted by artificial intelligence. Credit: ...

WITH SEA FARMING AND KELP. CHRISTA ROSEN AND INGA POTTER HEAD OUT FROM KITTERY POINT, MAINE, ANTICIPATING A HEALTHY HAUL. A LEISURELY TEN MINUTES FROM THE HARBOR, YELLOW BUOYS MARK THEIR GROW LINES.

KELP. CHRIS DE ROSEN AND INGA POTTER HEAD OUT FROM KITTERY POINT, MAINE, ANTICIPATING A HEALTHY HAUL FOR A LEISURELY TEN MINUTES FROM THE HARBOR. YELLOW BUOYS MARK THEIR GROW LINES. THEY CULTIVATE ...