Along the southern coastline, researchers dive deep to collect seaweed from kelp forests and rocky platforms, taking small ...

Along the southern coastline, researchers dive deep to collect seaweed from kelp forests and rocky platforms, taking small ...

Seaweed aquaculture holds promise for a more sustainable food system, but it's not all smooth sailing.

In a city built on biotechnology innovation, some of our most important scientific questions remain unanswered beneath the surface of the ocean. Giant kelp forests once defined much of San Diego’s ...

Exxon Mobil’s XOM-1.63%decrease; red down pointing triangle scientists delivered a grim message to one of the oil company’s top strategic-planning executives in February 2020: Its much-heralded algae ...

A first-of-its-kind study about the state of kelp off the La Jolla coast explores ways to help it bounce back in the face of decline. The study, published recently by researchers at UC San Diego’s ...

The growth form of giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) is composed of shoots known as stipes instead of branches. From one parent holding fast to the hard bottom might come as many as 150 stipes.

La Jolla and Point Loma are home to the largest giant kelp forests on the West Coast, but those golden underwater forests are shrinking as ocean temperatures rise. A new study from Scripps Institution ...

Young kelp forests have returned to a stretch of coastline in Peru after scientists replanted giant seaweed where it had largely vanished. Fish that once disappeared from local waters have already ...

– Off the coast, water temperature has not dropped to traditional lows since the 2015 appearance of a warm mass of water in the eastern Pacific Ocean – A new study illustrates the importance of ...

Giant kelp and bull kelp forests create habitats that support an amazing diversity of sea life, and their floating canopies are a prominent feature at the surface of California coastal waters.

Giant kelp and bull kelp forests create habitats that support an amazing diversity of sea life, and their floating canopies are a prominent feature at the surface of California coastal waters.