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Record ocean temperatures are killing coral reefs in the Florida Keys. Here’s what they looked like before and after.

Climate change and the heat waves it causes are killing Florida’s corals, pushing this iconic reef in the Keys to the brink.

About 250 unique Staghorn genotypes and 150 Elkhorn genotypes rescued from the Florida Keys ae being housed at the Mote Aquaculture Research Park

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Ocean temperatures in the area reached as high as 93 degrees Fahrenheit in July 2023.

Thanks to the help of Sarasota-based marine researchers, thousands of endangered corals were saved and evacuated from backreefs due to high water temperatures.

Noaa and marine rescue groups work together in effort to preserve Florida’s reefs as rising water temperatures cause concern

Local researchers give update on how coral reefs in the lower Florida Keys are responding to extreme heat.

Catrin Einhorn (The New York Times) writes about attempts to save Florida’s coral: “Teams dedicated to ocean restoration are urgently moving samples to tanks on land as a marine heat wave devastates entire reefs.” For full article and photographs by Jason Gulley, visit The New York Times. When Bailey Thomasson first spotted the coral, she felt…

As Florida ocean temperatures rise, scientists race in a Noah's Ark-style mission to haul coral to safety in land-based tanks before they become extinct.