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Kelp forests sustain our fisheries and fight climate change. Many of them are imperiled.

Forests of golden kelp, a type of brown seaweed that grows in cooler waters, weave along the coastline of southern Australia. But many people aren’t even aware that it’s there, says Adriana Vergés. “I live in Sydney — it’s Australia’s largest city — and it has absolutely gorgeous kelp forests,” Vergés, a professor of marine […]

The study published in Nature Communications offered a rare gauge of the contribution from the tall seaweed, which is threatened by climate change, valuing it at three times the amount previously thought.

Study is the first to examine the value of kelp — found along a third of the world's shores and on all three of Canada's coasts

These underwater forests represent an average of US$500 billion annually in benefits to commercial fisheries, ocean pollution removal and carbon absorption, new research shows.