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Maine’s Once Abundant Kelp Forests Face an Array of Growing Threats

Inside Climate News · By Pragathi Ravi · last updated
These breeding grounds for fish are under siege from red turf algae, sea urchins, storm surges, warming waters and climate change.

By Pragathi Ravi

Shane Farrell has spent the better part of the last three years underwater, diving off the coast of Maine. The University of Maine Ph.D. student and his team at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences are surveying the rapid decline of kelp forests in the warming waters.

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