The Alaska Department of Natural Resources has opened a public comment period on a proposal to create a 31-acre kelp farm in ...

The legislation prohibits farmed salmon and applies only to finfish, such as trout and Arctic grayling, among other finfish ...

A baby sea lion toting an artificial kelp strip was filmed performing intricate rhythmic gymnastics-esque circles through the ...

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

Adorably fuzzy sea otters aren’t just cute. The marine mammals serve a crucial role, helping to restore the giant kelp ...

Few experiences in a hunter’s life compare with acquiring an over-the-counter tag for an emperor goose, or hunting a flock of ...

Jim Estes, a retired USGS scientist and the paper's co-author, spent his career researching sea otters and how their presence along rocky shorelines shaped kelp forests. While working on remote ...

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.

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

People flocked from the boomtown of Skagway, Alaska, to Canada’s Yukon in search of riches during the Klondike gold rush of the late 1890s, following routes that Indigenous tribes long used for ...

The boat bobbed gently off Malibu's Big Rock Beach as a trio of scientific divers wriggled into wet suits and double-checked tanks and regulators. Behind them unfurled a panorama of devastation ...