ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. -- Just recently, 43 new artificial reefs were deployed by the Escambia County Marine Resources ...
It’s no secret that Florida’s iconic coral reefs are in trouble. Repeated body blows from hurricanes, pollution, disease, climate change — and a near-knockout punch from a 2023 marine heat wave — has ...
At Mote Marine Lab's Center for Coral Reef Research and Restoration in the Florida Keys, Joey Mandara is like a baby sitter. But instead of children he tends to thousands of baby corals, growing in ...
Researchers have orchestrated a "baby boom" of corals that will help fortify the reef systems off the Florida coasts that were heavily degraded as a result of record ocean warming. The Florida ...
Marine biologists have been struggling to save Florida’s corals as climate change and pollution have decimated reefs in recent decades. One solution just might come from a rough coral neighborhood in ...