FILE - A NOAA diver photographs a reef inside the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, in 2019, before the area was affected by last summer's bleaching event. A new artificial reefs program that ...

KEY WEST, Fla. – More than 1,000 young corals raised at Tampa’s Florida aquarium are on their way to the Florida Keys, offering a potential lifeline to the imperiled coral reef system. The Florida ...

There are 1,050 baby corals that arrived Wednesday in the Florida Keys for their next step in a mission to restore the marine ecosystem. The elkhorn corals are going to the Keys Marine Laboratory on ...

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 ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Katey Lesneski, research coordinator for coral restoration at the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. She's been checking on restored corals, which struggled in 2023.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists, nonprofits, the state of Florida and the federal government are all scrambling to rescue and rebuild the coral reef ...

We're going to go to the Florida Keys now, where scientists have been planting cultivated corals in an effort to revitalize reefs that are threatened by heat and disease. Last summer, though, the ...

MIAMI – It is no secret that Florida’s iconic coral reefs are in trouble. Repeated body blows from hurricanes, pollution, disease, climate change – and a near-knockout punch from a 2023 marine heat ...