In early June 2023, the coral reefs in the lower Florida Keys and the Dry Tortugas were stunning. We were in diving gear, checking up on hundreds of corals we had transplanted as part of our ...

It’s no secret that Florida’s iconic coral reefs are in trouble. Repeated body blows from hurricanes, pollution, disease, ...

After 10,000 years, they're now gone. Nearly all of Florida’s critically endangered Acropora coral colonies are now dead, after a record-breaking ocean heat wave in 2023. This marks the species’ ...

Since the Ice Age, elkhorn and staghorn corals off Florida’s southern coast have been stacking their skeletons into elaborate, branching homes for parrotfish, eels and octopuses. “They’ve been the ...

The Oculina Bank runs from Flagler Beach to Fort Pierce, is thousands of years old, and is found nowhere else in the world.

A record-breaking marine heat wave in 2023 left two ecologically vital coral species "functionally extinct" in Florida's Coral Reef, a study said Thursday, highlighting the growing dangers a warming ...

Once a picturesque garden beneath the sea, some stretches of the Florida Coral Reef have now become graveyards. Unburied coral skeletons stand as haunting remnants of the catastrophic marine heat wave ...

The word “extinct” still shocks the senses when applied to species that play such vital roles in our ecological and economic landscape. So when NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

The Florida Keys are filled with great parks both above and below the waves. This particular park is the first in the U.S.

Once a picturesque garden beneath the sea, some stretches of the Florida Coral Reef have now become graveyards. Unburied coral skeletons stand as haunting remnants of the catastrophic marine heat wave ...

This handout picture provided by Shedd Aquarium shows a dying thicket of Acropora cervicornis (staghorn coral) in Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida, on 11 September ...