The rich resources of Pacific kelp forests helped humans populate the Americas. Now depleted by as much as 95 percent, they ...

INTERACTIVE! Want to know what it's like to dive through a kelp forest? Now you can in this 360 video! We recommend a mobile device for viewing this interactive video - this works best using the ...

Adorably fuzzy sea otters aren’t just cute. The marine mammals serve a crucial role, helping to restore the giant kelp forests they rely on by removing their top predators, the sea urchins.

But urchins can swarm in vast numbers and even attack and fell the kelp forest itself, creating vast 'urchin barrens'. All is not entirely lost, thanks to the return of a ravenous forest resident ...

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, by eating the sea ...

When sea otters were reintroduced along the coastlines of islands in Southern California and British Columbia, researchers ...

"You can see a huge difference just when you go free diving for fish, in places where there used to be kelp everywhere, and covering the rocks," he says. "Now it's bare, it's like a forest that's ...

Adorably fuzzy sea otters aren’t just cute. The marine mammals serve a crucial role, helping to restore the giant kelp forests they rely on by removing their top predators, the sea urchins.