A November 2025 dive to Davis Reef delivered a promising sight for Florida Aquarium scientists working to restore the ...

Many tipping elements are now well-known: the Amazon rainforest, the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning ...

South Florida is home to the only barrier reef in the continental United States. But does it matter to people on land that the corals – like anywhere else in the world — are bleaching? To answer our ...

Elkhorn and staghorn coral are now functionally extinct around the state, researchers say, meaning they no longer play any significant role in their ecosystem. By Catrin Einhorn After a searing ocean ...

Unusual coral bleaching in the ocean off Broward County is prompting local researchers to sound the alarm. Researchers with Nova Southeastern University’s National Coral Reef Initiative were surprised ...

A rare coral bleaching event is going on now offshore of Fort Lauderdale and Dania Beach – and researchers at Nova Southeastern University are calling the findings troubling. Research shows octocorals ...

Coral bleaching isn’t just an ocean crisis. Here’s how the global event endangers food security, local jobs—and the land itself. Sea water divides the sunset and a ghost land of corals in New Ireland, ...

In 2023, a University of Miami Rosenstiel School scientist collects healthy coral off Key Biscayne as part of an research effort to better understand the heat tolerance of certain coral species and ...

Kaiku Kaholoa’a uses various equipment to conduct dives and take reef samples for testing. He is looking for ones that show a high tolerance to rising temperatures in an effort to help save coral from ...

In context: Located off the coast of Queensland, Australia, the Great Barrier Reef is the world's most expansive coral reef system, spanning more than 2,300 kilometers and comprising 2,900 individual ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — The Great Barrier Reef has experienced its greatest annual loss of live coral across most of its expanse in four decades of record-keeping, Australian authorities say. But due ...

New research has revealed alarming coral mortality rates of 92% after last year's bleaching event at Lizard Island on Queensland's Great Barrier Reef, marking one of the highest coral mortality rates ...