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A balance in motion

Off Anacapa Island, California, United States, the ocean grows its own forests. Within Channel Islands National Park—also known as the 'Galápagos of North America'—giant kelp stretches beyond 30 metres in length, forming buoyant ribbons lifted by air-filled bladders and anchored below by rootlike holdfasts.

A balance in motion
© Ian Shive/Tandem Stills + Motion
2026-07-28 en-IN Jul 28, 2026

What part anchors giant kelp to the ocean floor?

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