Iconic Reefs (M:IR) provided critical context for a new research paper published in Science that reports the functional ...

In a grim study, a team of nearly 50 researchers concludes that extreme ocean heat killed off two crucial coral species that ...

ATLANTA - Corals in Florida are dying in record numbers due to historically high water temperatures off the Florida Keys. The Georgia Aquarium is part of a select group working to save and restore the ...

The Acropora coral species- staghorn and elkhorn- were once the backbone of reef ecosystems in Florida and the Caribbean and have long been the focus of major restoration efforts. The study was led by ...

Recent record-breaking ocean temperatures have killed off so many elkhorn and staghorn corals, they are on the verge of ...

Two of Florida’s Acropora reef-building coral species had become functionally extinct across Florida’s coral reef.

In early June 2023, the coral reefs in the lower Florida Keys and the Dry Tortugas were stunning. We were in diving gear, ...

A record 2023 heat wave all but eradicated two species of coral that historically served as the backbone of Florida's reefs, ...

The Florida Aquarium celebrated Earth Day this year by announcing a history-making accomplishment that could help save the United States' only living coral barrier reef from extinction. For the first ...

APOLLO BEACH, Fla. — Biologists from The Florida Aquarium are spawning thousands of coral to help rebuild the state's coral reef. Funding from the state's Department of Environmental Protection is ...

An exhibit on coral reefs and how global climate change threatens them will be the focus of the Aquarium of the Pacific this summer — as it was supposed to be last year. “Coral Reefs: Nature’s ...