Restoring underwater kelp forests by culling overgrazing sea urchins would deliver significant financial benefits, a new ...

Restoring Port Phillip Bay’s dwindling kelp forests by culling overgrazing sea urchins would deliver more than $92 million in ...

Restoring Port Phillip Bay's dwindling kelp forests by culling overgrazing sea urchins would deliver more than $92 million in benefits, a new study ...

The marine creatures are marching down Australia’s east coast and colonising Port Phillip Bay. But some people are determined ...

The development is part of the OceanGreen project led by Ava Ocean, in which Akvaplan-niva is one of the partners.

Along the Pacific coastline, from Alaska to California, an underwater environmental success story is unfolding beneath the waves. Sea otters, those charismatic marine mammals known for floating on ...

With its ability to grow to as big as three feet across, armed with up to 24 limbs covered with tiny suction tubes, the sunflower star is a purple urchin-eating machine. But Bank said the sunflower ...

Crabs and lobsters serve as key predators in these ecosystems. By preying on kelp-consuming species such as sea urchins, they maintain marine biodiversity and prevent overgrazing of kelp. This ...

Kelp is algae that thrives in cold, nutrient rich waters—even slight temperature increases can disrupt the way it photosynthesizes and kill it off. “Between 2013 and 2016, we recorded 355 days ...

As its members learned about the lack of kelp forest protection, the Kelp Forest Alliance launched the Kelp Forest Challenge , a global call to action to restore 200,000 hectares (494,000 acres ...

A Norwegian marine project combining sea urchin harvesting with kelp forest restoration has received United Nations endorsement. The Ocean Green project, led by Alesund-based seafood and ...