Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will soon have access to a powerful new computing system for critical ...

Florida’s iconic reef tract has not vanished in its entirety, but its architectural backbone has effectively collapsed. The ...

As coral reefs worldwide face warming seas and ocean acidification, scientists in the Pacific turn to ‘cryopreservation’.

Florida’s coral reefs reached a breaking point in the summer of 2023, when an unprecedented marine heat wave sent water ...

Floridians are not used to hearing the word “extinct” applied to species that play significant roles in the state’s ...

The artist Leandro Erlich has installed the first phase of Reefline, a submerged installation that aims to regenerate coral and marine biodiversity along South Beach ...

Healthy corals, like this one in Puerto Rico, have color. Bleached corals appear white. By Seán Kinane/WMNF News (2015). In early June 2023, the coral reefs in the lower Florida Keys and the Dry ...

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 ...

(CNN) — Elkhorn and staghorn corals used to carpet Florida’s reef system, rising like antlers from the seabed — but not anymore. These crucial coral species are now “functionally extinct” in the ...

A new research paper published in Science reports the functional extinction of Acropora corals from Florida’s Coral Reef. Scientists documented catastrophic mortality of these critically endangered ...

In a lab at the University of Miami, there are tanks of knobby, tan-colored corals from Florida, Honduras and the Cayman Islands. They've been drafted into a sort of coral Olympics, as scientists look ...