When marine scientist Ian Enochs jumped into the water at Cheeca Rocks, a small reef in the Florida Keys known for vibrantly colorful corals, what he saw shook him to the core. “Literally everything ...

As temperatures soared in the Florida Keys last week, Andrew Ibarra took his kayak out into the ocean, dived into the water, and started taking pictures in the Cheeca Rocks Sanctuary Preservation Area ...

Scientists hoping to provide a genetic lifeline to Florida’s ailing reef are removing hundreds of colonies of healthy coral off Miami, hoping to outpace a wave of lethal bleaching spreading from the ...

Entire reefs in the Florida Keys are ghost towns, victims of an unseasonably early and severe marine heat wave that likely won’t end anytime soon that’s already bleached and killed thousands of corals ...

A Coral Restoration Foundation staff member counts and monitors coral fragments after returning them to the nursery on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023, off of the coast of Tavernier in the Florida Keys. These ...