Take, for instance, Cheeca Rocks, a historically resilient patch reef off the ... of images shows widespread coral bleaching at Cheeca Rocks reef, offshore of Islamorada, between June 30 and ...

They carefully scraped away harmful algae and predators impinging on staghorn fragments, under the supervision and training of interns from Islamorada Conservation and Restoration Education ...

But more than a decade of mapping and exploration "revealed one of the largest deep-sea coral reef habitats found to date anywhere in the world," NOAA Ocean Exploration operations chief Kasey ...

sabrina tavernise A historic heat wave is warming the waters off the coast of Florida, endangering a critical part of sea life, the coral reef ... this difficult patch while, hopefully, the ...

In 2004, Goldberg and his family settled in Islamorada, in the Florida Keys ... her PhD to become a behavioral ecologist and a coral reef ecologist. They spent hours at Goldberg’s dive shop ...

The Coral Restoration Foundation said in one coral reef restoration site off the state's coast, the extreme temperatures have proved deadly. "On July 20th, CRF teams visited Sombrero Reef ...

Suze MacDonald and First Sgt. Dan Henderson, joined an effort just last month to help restore the nation’s depleting coral reefs. The mission, based in Islamorada, Florida, was headed by ...

Coral reef halos, also known as grazing halos or sand halos, are bands of bare, sandy seafloor that surround coral patch reefs. These features, clearly-visible from satellite imagery, may provide ...

and five other aging lighthouses off the Keys were important maritime navigational aids that helped warn ships away from the Keys’ barrier coral reef. Islamorada, Fla. — A 150-year-old beacon ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A new framework integrates coral fusion, fragmentation, and microbiome science to enhance reef restoration, uniting basic and applied biology. This approach ...

Investigating the reefscape The team prepared small patches of the reef to create a blank slate for their experiment. They then cemented a controlled number of dead coral skeletons in each patch ...