The Overseas Highway, a 113-mile marvel connecting mainland Florida to Key West, isn’t just a transportation route—it’s a journey through a postcard that somehow became real life. You’ve seen snippets ...

Discover the National Marine Sanctuary System — 18 underwater parks protecting coral reefs, shipwrecks, whales, and America’s ...

A new study by scientists investigating the impact of 2023’s record-breaking marine heatwave on Florida’s coral reef has ...

Nearly all of Florida’s Acropora coral colonies are now dead, a dramatic downfall linked to a record-breaking ocean heat wave ...

The Trump administration is readying a proposal to open almost all U.S. coastal waters to new offshore oil drilling despite opposition from state governors and the president’s previous ...

The Trump administration is readying a proposal to open almost all U.S. coastal waters to new offshore oil drilling despite ...

The marine heatwave that gripped Florida in 2023 was hotter than anything Florida has seen in 150 years, and claimed at least two victims — species of corals now marked ‘functionally extinct’ from ...

“Typically, octocorals are some of the more resistant groups of corals to bleaching," said Dr. Jose Lopez, a professor at NSU ...

The Overseas Highway, a 113-mile marvel stretching from mainland Florida to Key West, isn’t just a transportation route—it’s an experience that transforms an ordinary drive into an epic island-hopping ...

In a grim study, a team of nearly 50 researchers concludes that extreme ocean heat killed off two crucial coral species that ...

Elkhorn and staghorn corals used to carpet Florida's reef system, rising like antlers from the seabed — but not anymore.

New research reports the functional extinction of Acropora corals from Florida's Coral Reef. Scientists have documented ...