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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 ...
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New Ketchikan company aims to kick-start Alaska kelp industry
Pacific Kelp Co. is working with two university researchers to study the benefits of their kelp extract as fertilizer. If it ...
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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Kelp! Scientists discover more about how sea otters come to the rescue of undersea forests
A sea otter floating above ribbons of kelp is undoubtedly one of nature’s cutest scenes. It’s well known that the marine mammals help make these sea surface ‘pillows’ more abundant ...
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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 ...