A team of coral biologists with The Florida Aquarium’s Coral Conservation and Research Center carefully removed coral from ...

South Florida is home to the only barrier reef in the continental United States. But does it matter to people on land that ...

FOX Weather Correspondent Brandy Campbell is in Islamorada, Florida taking a dive into the importance of the restoration of ...

Iconic Reefs (M:IR) provided critical context for a new research paper published in Science that reports the functional extinction of Acropora corals from Florida’s coral reef. NOAA field team members ...

Two of Florida’s Acropora reef-building coral species had become functionally extinct across Florida’s coral reef.

MIAMI — A year after the worst bleaching event ever recorded, the coral reefs off the Florida coast are slowly recovering. Despite elevated ocean temperatures, scientists say this summer they didn’t ...

South Florida is seeing a wave of new cars, but they won't add to traffic or lengthen anyone's commute. That's because the ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Some Florida Keys coral reefs are losing their color weeks earlier than normal this summer because of record-high water temperatures, meaning they are under stress and their ...

A marine heat wave is threatening Florida’s coral reefs. “We’ve never seen anything like this. Some are not even bleaching, they are going straight to dead,” said Scott Atwell, the communications and ...

Elkhorn and staghorn coral are functionally extinct around the state, researchers say, meaning they no longer play any significant role in their ecosystem.