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The Loop Current, a fueler of monster storms, is looking a lot like it did in 2005, the...

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The Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1, and the Gulf of Mexico is already warmer than average. Even more worrying is a current of warm tropical water that is looping unusually far into the Gulf for this time of year, with the power to turn tropical storms into monster hurricanes.

The Loop Current, and it’s the 800-pound gorilla of Gulf hurricane risks. It can spell disaster for folks along the Northern Gulf Coast, from Texas to Florida.

With La Niña helping clear the way for a busy hurricane season, this wide current of warm water could spell disaster for the northern Gulf Coast.

For the last seven years, Florida’s Coral Reef (FCR) has suffered from widespread and severe coral loss caused by stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD). First observed off the coast of Miami-Dade county in 2014, the outbreak has since spread throughout the entirety of FCR and some areas of the Caribbean. However, the propagation of the disease through FCR seemed to slow down when it reached the western end of the Marquesas in August 2020. Despite being present about 30 km (~20 miles) from th...

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It's a yearly occurrence that has costal cities across Miami-Dade and Broward counties worried: the annual King Tide flooding that sends water into city...

Many studies have shown how climate change is wreaking havoc on our oceans (and the world). Warming sea temperatures, more powerful storms, rising sea levels are all quickly becoming a reality.  This year, ocean currents have been the focus of numerous studies. And, unfortunately, research is showing that key ocean current systems like the Gulf Stream are weakening.  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report this fall that projects the so-called “conveyor belt�...

Watch: World Record breaking Turriff toy ship rescued off the coast of Miami By David Porter Published: 07:45, 03 March 2021 Get the Grampian Group sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the days newspaper Turriffs own Adventure 2 which proved another record breaker at the weekend by beating the current world record held by its sister ship for the farthest distance travelled at sea by a toy boat has been rescued off the coast of Miami. Tracking past the shorelin...