Coral Catastrophe: Brutal Heat Puts Florida’s Reefs on the Edge
After a brutally hot summer in 2023 that caused widespread bleaching and coral death, summer 2024 was more favorable for the ...
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South Florida sends 300 corals to Texas in effort to save reefs
The move "acts as another layer of defense to safeguard" Florida's critically endangered corals from climate change, ...
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300 sea corals brought from Florida to Texas as part of effort to save the species
NSU's marine science research facility serves as a coral reef nursery, where rescued corals are stored ... as well as the ...
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Scientists Play Matchmaker for Beloved Sea Snails in the Florida Keys
To boost the iconic queen conch's population, researchers are relocating the heat-stressed creatures to cooler, deeper waters ...
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Florida’s coral reefs are still ailing but doing better
A year after the worst coral bleaching ever recorded, Florida's reefs are slowly recovering. Despite elevated ocean ...
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Iconic Reefs program aims to save our seas
Corals are dying. Fish stocks are depleted. Yet, the Florida Keys depends on them as large parts of its economic engine.
Endangered sea corals moved from Florida to the Texas Gulf Coast for research and restoration
Scientists have moved about 300 endangered sea corals from Florida to the Texas Gulf Coast for research and restoration.
IVF-like breeding helps corals conceive hardy babies for rebuilding reefs, study finds
Left to nature, coral’s mating prospects are somewhat restricted by their inability to walk, fly or swipe Tinder to find a mate.
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Florida’s coral reefs are still ailing but doing better
In the Florida Keys, there was widespread bleaching and many corals died, decimating reefs. Because of storms and many days with a significant cloud cover, water temperatures in Florida over the ...