Monroe County’s Artificial Reefs Program is making significant progress as new reef projects move forward, permits are secured, and recently deployed sites flourish with marine life, according to ...

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — If you build it, they will come. Just eight months after Ocean Rescue Alliance International deployed 50 artificial reef structures off the shores of Hollywood Beach, the underwater ...

Reef restoration is a slow process, with divers planting coral fragments one at a time by hand. But roboticists are now ...

As climate change causes ocean temperatures to rise, coral bleaching events are expected to become more frequent. So, scientists are looking for ways to help coral reefs recover more quickly, and a ...

Florida’s governor came to the Florida Keys on Wednesday to announce a new initiative aimed at restoring the state’s battered coral reefs. Gov. Ron DeSantis also said the state would invest $5 million ...

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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 ...

A baby coral, freshly settled on a reef surface, faces terrible odds. Predators graze over it. Sediment smothers it. And as ...

Four and a half miles north of Grand Isle, large cranes dropped bulbous gray blobs of concrete into Barataria Bay on Wednesday morning. The lumpy structures will become a new habitat for sport fish ...

Night on planet Earth is getting brighter as artificial light illuminates more natural spaces. Scientists know a lot about how this messes with ecosystems on land, but new research shows it can ...