Scientists transplant crossbred corals off Miami's coast to help local reefs combat climate change effects, introducing ...

Even as President Trump calls for slashing the funding of NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program, reefs are dying just a ...

Scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium, and Tela Marine in Honduras are transplanting crossbred coral ...

Florida’s devastated coral reefs can’t seem to catch a break. The marine heat wave of 2023, combined with an epidemic of ...

Coral reefs are not just beautiful—they are ecological powerhouses. ... Volunteers often participate in hands-on restoration dives, helping to prepare, plant, and monitor corals.

The ocean may be nature’s single greatest gift to humanity. It provides about half of the oxygen we breathe, feeds billions of people, supports countless jobs in every corner of the globe, and absorbs ...

Though thousands of miles from Rarotonga, Brown conducts similar thermal resistance experiments on local eelgrass. She’s been ...

Travelers to the Maldives are encouraged to help restore coral reefs in this simple yet engaging way. Skipping the US Travel 2025 ... unlike plants, they don’t make their own food.

And for weeks on end, reefs in the Florida Keys, the largest coral reef in the continental US, were soaking in 90-plus degree water. That’s well beyond the threshold for bleaching in this region.

While plants and some bacteria can make their own food, ... With too few tritons on the reef, crown-of-thorns starfish populations can explode, jeopardizing the living coral that makes up reefs.

Named after John D. Pennekamp, a former newspaper editor for the Miami Herald and noted Everglades conservationist, John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park was developed in 1963 as the United States ...

NOAA recently reported that the largest coral bleaching event on record is impacting 84% of the world’s reefs, including the ...