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'Like someone put a blanket over the ocean': Kelp could be among fires' casualties
The team found that mature giant kelp beds shrank after the 2016 Soberanes fire in Monterey County, the 2017 Thomas fire in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, and the 2018 Woolsey fire in the Santa ...
Forgotten forests: Regenerating the kelp forest highway
The rich resources of Pacific kelp forests helped humans populate the Americas. Now depleted by as much as 95 percent, they ...
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Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution identify heat-resistant kelp strain
This study area focused on strains found in the Northeastern U.S., where kelp beds are declining, and in some cases, no longer growing. This is particularly important to note in the Gulf of Maine ...
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Osaka Konbu Museum
Konbu kelp, an essential ingredient in Osaka cuisine and an integral component of Japanese food culture for millennia, is ...
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Washington can take the right steps for our environment | Letters
As Nance said, HB 1631 may be a small step to increase kelp beds, but it is a step. Just as Washingtonians took the step to soundly defeat Initiative 2117 last November and save Washington state ...
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‘Like someone put a blanket over the ocean’: Kelp could be among fires’ casualties
Research has found that the median recovery rate of kelp beds near Malibu was a mere 7% in the two years after the Woolsey fire. The boat bobbed gently off Malibu’s Big Rock Beach as a trio of ...