Atlas8 min read
Arraial do Cabo: Brazil's Cold-Water Oasis
A region guide to Arraial do Cabo — the wind-driven upwelling that chills Brazil's warm coast, its kelp-like Sargassum beds, rich reefs and dive-season rhythms.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
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8 articles
Atlas8 min read
Arraial do Cabo: Brazil's Upwelling Kelp Outlier
On a headland east of Rio de Janeiro, wind-driven upwelling chills subtropical water enough for deep kelp beds — Brazil's strangest and most surprising forest.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Atlas8 min read
The Falkland Islands: Kelp So Thick Boats Push Through It
Falklands kelp grows so dense it damps waves, stalls boats and builds calm harbours. Inside the physics and ecology of the world's thickest kelp belt.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Atlas9 min read
Gough Island: Kelp at the Edge of the World Heritage Map
A windswept volcanic island in the sub-Antarctic South Atlantic, ringed by giant kelp and breeding seabirds — and part of one of the most remote marine reserves on Earth.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Atlas9 min read
Tristan da Cunha: Kelp Around the Loneliest Island
Giant kelp forests, rockhopper penguins and a lobster fishery that funds a town: a guide to Tristan da Cunha, the South Atlantic's most remote kelp coast.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Atlas8 min read
Tristan da Cunha: The Kelp Coast at the End of the Map
What the kelp ring around the world's most remote inhabited island actually looks like — island by island, season by season — and how anyone ever gets to see it.
Tom Okafor ·
Atlas9 min read
Falkland Islands: The Engine of Southern Ocean Kelp
Inside the Falkland Islands' giant kelp beds — among the most extensive on Earth — and the penguins, seals and steamer ducks that run on them.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Atlas10 min read
Península Valdés: Kelp, Whales and the Argentine Sea
Península Valdés pairs Patagonia's most famous whale nursery with giant kelp beds at the edge of the steppe — plus one of the kelp world's sharpest invasion stories.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·