New research shows how rapidly proliferating turf algae are waging 'chemical warfare' to inhibit the recovery of kelp forests along Maine's warming coast. As the ocean warms across its temperate ...

As kelp forests decline in the warming coastal waters of the Gulf of Maine, turf algae – dense mats of red algae replacing kelp in many regions – may chemically interfere with kelp recovery, a new ...

While kelp forests persist along northern Maine's rocky coast, kelp abundance has declined by as much as 80% on the southern coast in recent decades. In its stead, carpet-like turf algae have moved in ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Shane Farrell has spent the better part of the last three years underwater, diving ...

Great swathes of kelp provide shelter and food for marine life in reefs along many of the world’s coastlines. But these kelp forests (pictured) are under threat, partly because of rising ocean ...

Lead author, Shane Farrell, examines algae samples in the lab. Farrell spent several multiple months on a research visit with co-author Daniel Petras’s former lab at the University of Tübingen to ...