The new pilot project will sell the problematic purples to restaurants or turn them into agricultural products.

A regenerative fishery and kelp restoration project launched by Norwegian ocean tech company Ava Ocean has received official ...

These marine plants and algae are sometimes called ... researchers have found that wild kelp “forests” can shelter more than 800 species of marine life. Kelp and other algae are high ...

When plants grow, they take carbon dioxide ... However, buying kelp may provide an incentive to restore the vast areas of kelp forests that have been destroyed; an environmental benefit that ...

Credit: Jeff Maassen photo A new project is underway to restore kelp forests in the Santa Barbara Channel by removing sea urchins and selling them to restaurants or turning them into agricultural ...

Plants hold the key to removing atmospheric ... While visiting Portugal, I saw another innovator planting kelp forests to store carbon - and perhaps one day be used as a food source.

Trillions of these microscopic plants live in the surface waters all ... This phenomenon is particularly high in the kelp ...

Now, Commercial Fishermen of Santa Barbara are teaming up with UC Santa Barbara researchers to remove them. Jenn Caselle is a ...

The seaweed species is vital to underwater life; kelp forests host a greater diversity of plants and animals than almost any other ocean community. It's estimated there are now 130 million sea ...

sea otters consume voracious kelp-eating sea urchins at a high enough rate that kelp forests continue to persist and provide habitat for numerous species. Without sea otters, sea urchins devour ...