Armed with scrub brushes, young scuba divers took to the waters of Florida’s Alligator Reef in late July to try to help corals struggling to survive 2023’s extraordinary marine heat wave. They ...

With water temperatures dropping significantly in the past several weeks, some Florida Keys coral restoration groups will ...

Island Ventures (Key Largo): Island Ventures specializes in diving and snorkeling adventures to the top spots of the Key ...

KEY WEST - One person died and five others were ejected from a boat that was involved in a powerboat race in the Florida Keys, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said Friday. At about 4 ...

The world's only Key deer, the smallest subspecies of the white-tailed deer, are found in piney and marshy wetlands bordered ...

Deeper Corals May Help Shallow Reefs Recover in the Florida Keys Sep. 23, 2024 — Using blushing coral star and genomic DNA analyses, researchers have uncovered vital links between coral ...

Bonefish & Tarpon Trust (BTT) and several partners are collaborating on new research to address a suspected toxin affecting ...

Landsat satellites have gone beyond observing Earth’s land by enabling new methods to measure ocean depth in shallow coastal ...

MIAMI - The lower and middle Florida Keys are under a tropical storm warning as Hurricane Rafael is forecast to grow steadily ...

Wastewater contains nutrients that can overfeed algae, leading to harmful algal blooms and pollution issues in the ocean and ...

But this year, everything is going in reverse. As water temperatures spiked in the Florida Keys, scientists from universities, coral reef restoration groups and government agencies launched a ...

In the Florida Keys, the water travels through bedrock comprising a porous carbonate material made of ancient coral reefs that can bind phosphate to its surface through a process called adsorption.