Meaning of bull kelp | Babel Free

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The brown alga Nereocystis luetkeana.

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“A tiny sparkle caught Ruth’s eye, a small glint of refracted sunlight angling out from beneath a massive tangle of drying bull kelp, which the sea had heaved up onto the sand at full tide.”

“The bull kelp forests off Northern California are sometimes spoken of as the redwoods of the sea. And like⟳ the redwoods, these forests are in danger. In less than a decade, these otherworldly undersea landscapes, lush with life, have⟳ all but disappeared along 200 miles of coast north of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.”

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