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Kelp forests under threat from acid seas

21 May 2018
Photo of kelp forest off California
Gazing upward in a giant kelp forest. Channel Islands NMS, California. (Courtesy: NOAA Photo Library (sanc0001) CC BY 2.0 or Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
The kelp forests – those towering submarine tangles of brown seaweeds – may not survive the stea

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