16 articles
A kelp restoration project's first carbon verification, told from the inside — what auditors tested, what they found, and what makes kelp credits unusual.
Priya Raman ·
Burial is the finish line of blue carbon: organic matter locked into deep-sea sediment for centuries. Here's what burial means, how scientists prove it, and why it's rare.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Greenland may hold some of the world's largest, least-studied kelp forests — clear water, extreme light, expanding with glacier retreat. A guide to the world's kelp frontier.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Avoided-loss credits pay to stop an ecosystem from dying. For kelp forests the idea holds real promise — and some serious counterfactual traps.
Priya Raman ·
Kelp grows fast and dies young. Follow its carbon from sunlit blade to beach wrack, deep-sea fall and seafloor sediment — the full journey of kelp detritus.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
The honest research frontier: exported kelp carbon, deep-sea decomposition, the dissolved-carbon puzzle and where sequestration science must go next.
Priya Raman ·
Trees and kelp both store carbon, but in completely different ledgers. A clear-eyed comparison of storage, durability, measurement, co-benefits and credit quality.
Priya Raman ·
Kelp carbon counts only when it leaves the forest and stays gone. The traps, biomarkers, isotopes and models scientists use to track it into the deep.
Priya Raman ·
Kelp carbon carries a chemical fingerprint. Stable isotope analysis lets ecologists trace it from blade to grazer to fish — and test restoration claims.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Kelp carbon only matters for climate if it stays out of the air for centuries. How kelp carbon reaches the deep ocean — and what engineered sinking must prove.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Kelp forests fix carbon at extraordinary rates, yet sit outside IPCC inventories and most crediting standards. Here's why — and what would close the gap.
Priya Raman ·
Kelp forests don't bury carbon in their own sediment the way mangroves do. The donor-versus-recipient debate, the export science, and what kelp can claim.
Priya Raman ·
Seaweed sinking is the most contested idea in ocean carbon removal. Where the science has settled, where it hasn't, and five tests before crediting a tonne.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Sinking farmed kelp into the deep ocean could lock away carbon for centuries — or create new problems. A clear-eyed look at both sides of the seaweed debate.
Priya Raman ·
The eight quantification and accounting errors that most often damage kelp-carbon projects — and the specific checks that catch each one early.
Priya Raman ·
What the peer-reviewed evidence actually supports on kelp carbon: productivity numbers, export fractions, burial estimates, and the uncertainty that headlines skip.
Priya Raman ·