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Kelp is more important than you might realise. And climate change threatens it

Low tide in Laguna Beach. The tide was low and kelp was floating on the surface.

Kelp pictured in the ocean near a beach, floating on the surface. Image: Shane Stagner/Unsplash

Sonia Fernandez
Engineering and Public Affairs Writer, University of California, Santa Barbara
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