kelp
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El Niño’s delivery of warmer ocean temperatures may add yet more stress to California’s kelp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Made from recycled plastics and ceramic magnets, it’s designed to mimic a dense kelp forest, which is a natural barrier for sharks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
Others are much larger and multicellular, such as kelp, slime molds, and red algae.
From Science Daily ● May 7, 2026
People assume it's rubbery, but that's Pacific kelp - Japanese kombu.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
They had picked two dozen salmon from the net, three stray sticks, two dogfish, a long convoluted coil of kelp, and a number of ensnarled jellyfish when Carl Heine’s face showed.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
Researchers learned that sessile invertebrates -- those that stay in one place, such as mussels and barnacles -- became more abundant during the study period, while seaweed species like kelps declined.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2024
You’ll also encounter a prism of marine plants such as varying kelps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2024
The kelps growing there accumulated two times less biomass.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 6, 2021
“If we go down to zero kelps, then trying to restore them is a huge amount of work,” she said.
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2021
The kelps are abundant, covering thousands of square miles in the Pacific Ocean, from Mexico to the Arctic Ocean.
From General Science by Bertha M. Clark
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