Cailyn Joseph, a PhD student in Andrew Baker's lab, organizes brain and elkhorn coral in Honduras before the trip to Miami. MIAMI — Off the northern coast of Honduras, thick stands of endangered ...

Three-quarters of the world's oceans are still unmapped with much detail. But as our technology improves, researchers can see more and more of what's hidden beneath the inky depths. Such as, say, the ...

Thousands of baby corals took a major step this week toward saving Florida's struggling reefs. Why it matters: They offer a ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — "This is very far from normal." That's how one climatology expert Brian McNoldy described the warmer-than-normal sea surface temperatures surrounding the state of Florida and ...

MIAMI-- A new study found that 70 percent of Florida’s reefs are eroding and experiencing net loss of reef habitat. The research, conducted by an interdisciplinary group of scientists through the NOAA ...

Researchers have orchestrated a "baby boom" of corals that will help fortify the reef systems off the Florida coasts that were heavily degraded as a result of record ocean warming. The Florida ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have mapped the largest coral reef deep in the ocean, stretching hundreds of miles off the U.S. Atlantic coast. While researchers have known since the 1960s that some ...

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 ...

Think of it as a seed bank to store the genes of Florida's most imperiled corals until safer times along the state's dying reefs. SeaWorld Orlando's new Coral Rescue Center, unveiled Friday, aims to ...

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 coral reef restoration group is warning that rising ocean temperatures are putting Florida's coral reef in danger of catastrophic loss. The Coral Restoration Foundation, a group centered around ...