On a new free-diving tour in South Africa, one traveler comes face-to-face with seals, shipwrecks, and the limits of her own ...

Marine researchers at Stellenbosch University (SU) and the not-for-profit Sea Change Project are teaming up to study the world’s only giant bamboo kelp forest, stretching 1,000 kilometres from Cape ...

Phil Mansergh is a chef on a surfboard looking for his main ingredient, paddling over a kelp forest running 1,000 kilometres ...

In a remote corner of Namibia, near a ghost town that was once a diamond mining hub, a startup called Kelp Blue is trying to pioneer a new coastal industry. Offshore, the company is now growing a mini ...

Kelp forests have declined across the world and governments, organizations and businesses are mounting ambitious efforts to protect and restore 9 million acres of kelp globally by 2040. Still, the ...

On its own, this Pipeline-esque slab in South Africa is scary enough. Steep and shallow, it's an extremely challenging wave. But, to add a few more terrifying layers to the experience, this wave ...

New research finds that Marine Protected Areas can boost the recovery of globally important kelp forests following marine heatwaves. The findings are published in the British Ecological Society’s ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The weathered UC Davis Marine Laboratory looms in thick fog on the edge of the ocean near Bodega Bay. Inside, an experiment is playing out that gives a badly needed boost to ...