California’s kelp forests struggle to recover a decade after collapse

Mongabay
Sep 29, 2025, 12:02 pm117 ptsTrending
More than 10 years after unusually high water temperatures in the Pacific Ocean killed off Northern California’s aquatic kelp forests, the region has still not recovered, reports David Helvarg, executive director of ocean conservation group Blue Frontier, for Mongabay. From 2013 to 2017, a mass of unusually…

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