As Washington residents flocked to beaches during this week's heat, a very different scene was unfolding beneath the surface ...

Bull kelp, the whiplike brown algae seen bobbing in Puget Sound this time of year, has a superpower. Capable of growing up to a foot of new foliage each day, it forms vast underwater forests, the ...

Native bull kelp forests in the Puget Sound have been steadily disappearing for decades. According to recent studies, there was an 80% loss of native kelp between 2013 and 2024. Around Squaxin Island, ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington is moving to protect struggling kelp beds near Squaxin Island as part of a broader push to restore critical marine habitats. On Friday, Lands Commissioner Dave Upthegrove ...

On a windy Tuesday, outside a garage filled with tanks of pinto abalone the size of fingernails and small stones, U.S. Rep.

Researchers are planning to grow 3 acres of sugar kelp north of the Hood Canal Bridge in an effort to save shellfish, and thereby larger ocean life. "Sugar kelp is a native species. It grows naturally ...