Seeing coral reefs can color one’s monochrome view of the ocean forever. In the pink of health — and red, blue, green and ...

A new study shows record ocean heat killed 98% to 100% of southern Florida coral, leaving elkhorn and staghorn species ...

Elkhorn and staghorn coral are functionally extinct around the state, researchers say, meaning they no longer play any ...

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

These crucial coral species are now “functionally extinct” in the region after record-breaking ocean temperatures, according ...

In early June 2023, the coral reefs in the lower Florida Keys and the Dry Tortugas were stunning. We were in diving gear, ...

Two of Florida’s Acropora reef-building coral species had become functionally extinct across Florida’s coral reef.

MARK HIXON, a professor of marine biology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, on what it was like to witness his favorite coral reef die. Two species of coral in Florida have gone functionally ...