The researchers were then able to identify patterns, explaining how the reintroduction of sea otters had a positive impact on kelp forests. The researchers looked at two instances of sea otter ...

Nate Johnson steers a small boat through the morning fog, navigating around an array of colorful buoys. The buoys are all that can be seen of his kelp farm. A little less than four acres large, ...

aware of my growing obsession with the small—an interest sparked by my introduction to foraminifera (forams for short), single-celled organisms of an ancient order of protist, which number in ...

Without them, urchins have flourished and been able to eat kelp forests, which further destabilizes marine ecosystems. Now, after years of diving along B.C.'s Central Coast, researchers have ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A railway company is helping to restore a vital kelp forest off the Sussex coast. Southern, which operates trains running parallel to the ...

The UK's first national conference on kelp ecology is being held in Brighton. Kelp forests once covered vast areas of the Sussex seabed between Selsey and Shoreham, but 96% of them had been ...

Plus, there’s evidence that magnetotactic bacteria help another microscopic organism, known as a protist, navigate. The question is, could they help turtles navigate, too? Magnetotactic bacteria ...

In the grand tree of life, that’s a big claim. Eukaryotes — organisms with complex cells — include animals, plants, fungi, and protists. But this ancient tree-like giant, the researchers ...