Science10 min read
The AMOC Explained: The Atlantic's Overturning Engine
How the Atlantic's great overturning circulation works, what the observations say about its strength, and why its slowing matters for climate and coasts.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
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Kitchen10 min read
Atlantic Seaweed Cooking: From Welsh Laverbread to Irish Carrageen
A cook's tour of Atlantic Europe's seaweed traditions — laverbread, dulse snacks, carrageen puddings, Brittany's tables — with home-cookable versions of each.
Sofia Andersson ·
Atlas7 min read
Kelp and Seaweed Forests of the Azores: A Coastal Atlas Guide
Nine volcanic islands in the mid-Atlantic hold warm-water seaweed forests instead of true kelp — plus limpets, groupers and mobulas. An atlas guide to the Azores underwater.
Tom Okafor ·
Atlas11 min read
The Azores: Volcanic Reefs and Kelp at the Atlantic's Midpoint
Nine islands on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge offer lava arches, seamount pinnacles and deep-water kelp gardens — a diver's atlas of volcanic reef ecology in the Azores.
Tom Okafor ·
Atlas11 min read
Canary Islands: Kelp Forests on the Edge of the Desert
Off the Sahara's shoulder, the Canary Islands grow seaweed forests in upwelled water — until heatwaves and sea urchins turn them. An atlas of kelp's southern edge.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Atlas9 min read
Cornwall: Kelp Forests at Britain's Celtic Edge
Cornwall's kelp forests shelter jewel anemones, seals and centuries of Celtic sea history. A regional guide to the coast's reefs and wildlife.
Tom Okafor ·
Atlas7 min read
The Isles of Scilly: Kelp, Seals and England's Atlantic Edge
Twenty-eight miles offshore of Land's End, the Scillies hold England's clearest water, warmest kelp reefs, great grey seal swims and some of British diving's classics.
Tom Okafor ·
Atlas8 min read
Kelp Forests of Brittany: Europe's Great Laminaria Beds
Brittany's laminaria beds are Europe's great kelp forests. Where they lie around Molène, Sein and Ouessant, what lives in them, and how to dive the tide races.
Tom Okafor ·
Atlas11 min read
Lüderitz, Namibia: Benguela Kelp on a Desert Coast
Off Namibia's windswept diamond coast, the Lüderitz upwelling cell brews some of the coldest, richest water in the Benguela — and a desert-shore kelp forest.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Atlas8 min read
Kelp Forests of the Outer Hebrides: Scotland's Atlantic Frontier
The Outer Hebrides hold Britain's oceanic kelp frontier — Laminaria forests in gin-clear Atlantic water, shell-sand lagoons and seabird citadels.
Tom Okafor ·
Atlas9 min read
Galicia's Rías: Where Kelp Meets the Harvest
Galicia's drowned river valleys mix upwelled Atlantic riches with a foraging culture older than Spain's seaweed industry. A guide to the rías and their kelp.
Sofia Andersson ·
Encyclopedia8 min read
Winged Kelp (Alaria esculenta): The Edible Kelp Growing on Exposed Reefs
Winged kelp (Alaria esculenta) is the wave-exposure specialist of Atlantic shores — and a mild, edible kelp. Its biology, range and kitchen appeal.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Field Notes8 min read
Field Notes: First Soundings on a New Atlantic Site
Ten days scouting Nova Scotia's eastern shore for what could become Tidewright's first Atlantic restoration site: sonar, charts and community halls.
Jack Callum ·
Atlas9 min read
Rías Baixas: Kelp, Harvesters and the Galician Tide
A ría-by-ría field guide to Galicia's drowned southern estuaries — mussel rafts, sea-spaghetti kelps and the Cíes Islands, fed by one of the Atlantic's great upwellings.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·