The Kelp Forest Alliance's second global stocktake finds protected kelp habitat up from 16 to 23 percent since 2024 and over 19,000 hectares restored, while warming and overgrazing keep pushing forests into decline.
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A collection of weekly news updates and recently published research on kelp from around the world. This site aims to promote awareness and understanding of one of the world's most important ecosystems: kelp forests.
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Kelp forests are among the most productive ecosystems on the planet, sheltering marine life, buffering coastlines, and quietly pulling carbon out of the water. We need to keep it that way.
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The State of the World's Kelp Forests 2026 is out: more protection, more restoration, and a long way still to go Latest kelp research
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When Tasmania's giant kelp vanished, so did the dives: 30 years of logbooks tell the story Three decades of dive logs from the Tasman Peninsula show that marine heatwaves didn't just wipe out giant kelp. They wiped out a business built around it.
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