kelp

Important marine habitats such as seagrasses and kelp forests are suited to cooler waters and can experience high levels of heat stress when temperatures surge.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

Past marine heat waves have decimated California’s kelp, “with bull kelp habitats declining 90% in Northern California since 2014,” Jaros said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 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

I was on a bed made of silky woven kelp, in a .room paneled with abalone shell Glowing pearls the size of basketballs floated around the ceiling, providing light.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

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