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Reef-wide outplanting of corals susceptible to stony coral tissue loss disease begins Posted on The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and our coral reef restoration partners announce the recent successful outplanting of 1,152 coral colonies along Florida’s Coral Reef as part of the largest coordinated experimental outplanting effort in Florida to date. Reef restoration experiments in Florida have never been replicated on such a large scale before, with 24 outplanting sites spanning from Martin County down the co...

Community It doesn’t necessarily get any easier to tell the height of a wave from the water. Photo: Brent Storm//Unsplash Editor’s Note:  Welcome to Surf History 101, where we look at innovations in the world of surfing and beyond that changed the pursuit forever. In this edition, Sam George examines the history of measuring waves and how it’s shaped the pursuit. What Is It The decades-long custom of ignoring actual wave height, choosing instead to declaratively assert an estimate – the assigned figure having been reached in a completely arbitrary manner.  Who Developed ...

© Ritchie B Tongo/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock What’s happened? China has been sabre-rattling in the Taiwan Strait. Earlier this month 25 Chinese warplanes entered Taiwanese airspace, reportedly the biggest incursion on record. Chinese jets breached Taiwan’s air defence identification zone 380 times last year, forcing Taipei to spend US$900m scrambling fighter jets. The constant low-level pressure has proved so taxing on the island’s military that it says it will no longer send planes to meet every Chinese incursion. Concern is growing that this is a prelude to more serious conflict.  Why doe...

Taipei, Taiwan – For the first time in more than half a century, the United States and Japan are expected this week to make a joint statement on the security of the Taiwan Strait following a meeting between US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. While largely symbolic, the statement would be an indication of increasing concern about the security of the democratically-run island amid dire public warnings from senior US military officials about the threat of an invasion by Beijing, which claims the island as its own. Admiral John Aquilino recently told a Senate Ar...

Motorists have been warned to prepare for delays as four-week roadworks get underway from today.