Florida's deep corals could play a vital role in restoring and replenishing the state's declining shallow reefs.

Since the 1970s, coral reefs in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS) have experienced catastrophic declines in ...

Microplastics have made their way into nearly every environment on Earth and have been detected inside thousands of animals ...

Results of the study, published in the journal Heredity and featured on the cover, revealed four distinct genetic lineages of blushing star coral. At the sites sampled, the two main genetic ...

Researchers have found microplastics less than 300 m in size in coral skeletons. The team developed a new protocol to extract and detect microplastics and applied it to coral samples from the Gulf of ...

In mid-2023, the Caribbean Sea simmered as air temperatures soared, marking the hottest days ever recorded in Puerto Rico and ...

The most prevalent types of microplastics found were nylon, polyacetylene, and polyethylene terephthalate (PET), accounting ...

Nearly 300 individual corals have been rescued from Florida and are temporarily being housed at the Texas State Aquarium ...

Researchers from Japan and Thailand investigating microplastics in coral have found that all three parts of the coral anatomy ...

Here is a list of canceled events and closings in Lee County due to Hurricane Helene. We'll update this as more cancellations ...

7:53 p.m. Monday — W. Jefferson St. and N. Morton St. 400 block of Wall St.: Reported at 10:17 a.m. Wednesday that a hit and ...

Hurricane Helene is moving up and through the Gulf of Mexico. This blog provides the latest impacts and development in Lee ...