A protected coral reef off the Florida Keys has been devastated by warming ocean temperatures, with one site witnessing “100% coral mortality,” as CBS News reports. The Sombrero Reef restoration has ...

After last summer’s record-breaking ocean temperatures in South Florida, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) researchers have uncovered extensive coral damage at five of seven ...

Feb. 15 (UPI) --A team of researchers completed a scientific mission Wednesday to assess the damage from last year's record-high marine temperatures on restored coral reefs in the Florida Keys. The ...

A canopy is used to shade a partially bleached elkhorn coral in the Dry Tortugas in August 2023 as part of a U.S. Geological Survey study looking at whether shading can be used to help coral recover ...

Some species of coral in the Florida Keys have been ravaged, scientists have found, in the wake of a record-breaking marine heatwave. Researchers from the NOAA's Mission: Iconic Reefs program ...

A preliminary assessment of the impact of an underwater summer heatwave on seven iconic sites on the Florida Reef Tract Feb. 14 initially paints a bleak picture of damage. For example, five of the ...

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Tucked away in an office park hundreds of miles from the southeast Florida ...

Battered by heat, washed out to a bleached, white hue and ravaged by disease, corals offshore of Key Largo used what little energy they had left to spawn the next generation that could save their ...

Record-warm ocean temperatures off the coast of Florida last summer stressed an already vulnerable coral reef system, prompting a massive die-off across the only living barrier reef in the continental ...

A preliminary study of the damage done by last summer's record heat wave to Florida's coral reefs is in — and the results are not good. Barely one-fifth of the staghorn corals survived. And elkhorn ...

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