Coral Catastrophe: Brutal Heat Puts Florida’s Reefs on the Edge
After a brutally hot summer in 2023 that caused widespread bleaching and coral death, summer 2024 was more favorable for the ...
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Florida’s coral reefs are still ailing but doing better
A year after the worst coral bleaching ever recorded, Florida's reefs are slowly recovering. Despite elevated ocean ...
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As coral reefs face unprecedented heat, scientists experiment with new ways to protect them
The scientists hope to breed the imported corals with Florida’s natives to produce a more heat-tolerant coral. Andrew Baker, who directs the Coral Reef Futures Lab at the university’s ...
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Coral Reefs News
Hurricanes and disease outbreaks affect coral reef water microbial communities, ... Going 'Back to the Future' to Forecast the Fate of a Dead Florida Coral Reef Mar. 28, 2024 — How coral ...
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Florida’s coral reefs are still ailing but doing better
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 ...
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Coral reef restorers struggle as temperatures soar
When the water off the coast of Florida reached nearly 38C last year, corals simply could not cope. Reefs bleached en masse, turning deathly white after corals ejected the symbiotic algae that provide ...