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A dying brain coral in Looe Key in the lower Florida Keys pictured in March 2016. Brian Lapointe, Ph.D., Florida Atlantic University's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute hide caption ...
Coral bleaching isn’t just an ocean crisis. Here’s how the global event endangers food security, local jobs—and the land ...
Scientists use satellites in fight to save coral reefs 03:23. For years, coral reefs around the world have been devastated by mass bleaching events as the oceans continue to warm due to climate ...
America’s most iconic coral reef is dying. Only one thing will save it. An extreme heat wave has pushed Florida’s reef to the brink — and burned up years worth of progress.
A team of scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium and Tela Marine in Honduras is working together to transplant crossbred coral fragments onto ...
Scientists fight to help protect the Florida coral that's dying from heat Marine scientists say record ocean temperatures have sparked widespread coral bleaching in the Florida Keys. The extreme ...
Coral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don’t Have To. Episode 22 | 5m 42s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Coral reefs cover less than one percent of the seafloor, and yet they’re home to a quarter of ...
The world’s coral reefs are in perilous danger due to overfishing, pollution and climate change. But a team of scuba-diving scientists has developed a groundbreaking method for speeding up coral ...
“You can’t grow back a 500-year old coral in 15 years,” says Eakin. “In many cases, it’s like you’ve killed the giant redwoods.” The death of coral also represents a huge loss—as ...
Coral reefs, crucial for marine biodiversity, are suffering immensely from climate change, ocean acidification, pollution, overfishing, and coastal development. Iconic reefs like the Great Barrier ...