Oregon has lost two-thirds of its kelp forests since 2010. Efforts to remove hundreds of thousands of purple urchins might ...

The Ambler Road would give mining companies access to a vast trove of untapped copper, cobalt and rare-earth minerals, but ...

BETHEL, Alaska – New video shows the powerful flooding ongoing in western Alaska from the remnants of Typhoon Halong, which has caused widespread damage along the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, displacing ...

Kids (and parents) curious about Long Island’s connection to the waterways that shape their home have the opportunity to dive into learning about them at the Long Island Children’s Museum’s new ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography is ready for spooky season! Guests can expect to be greeted with a giant skeleton in the Giant Kelp Forest as part of ...

Ocean farmers are revolutionizing the way we think about food and the environment. By cultivating massive amounts of sustainable crops like kelp, they not only provide a nutritious food source but ...

NOAA Fisheries and seaweed farmers team up to chart wild kelp beds, helping grow Alaska’s seaweed aquaculture industry Alaska’s coastline holds vast, untapped potential for seaweed aquaculture—but ...

New environmental DNA tools can accurately and inexpensively quantify kelp-derived biomass in sediments below commercial kelp farms, according to research recently published in PLOS One. The new study ...

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy is a brave man. When he asked whether Alaska should consider fish farming, he must have known the world would come crashing in, but he said it anyway. The public reaction, ...

A woman was seriously injured in a bear attack just steps from her home in southern Alaska, a state where all three North American bear species roam and thrive. At 5:45 a.m. on Tuesday, the ...

Kelp aquaculture operations are rapidly expanding in Alaska and coming into increasingly greater contact with wild marine species. In an attempt to limit some of the interactions between Alaska’s ...