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Millions watch as underwater camera documents daily life on a Miami coral reef

For five years, the Coral City Camera has given viewers a live look at aquatic reef life near Miami. It's documented the declining conditions and shown a surprising vitality among some coral species.

April 15, 2025
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  • Greg Allen
Veterans and volunteers with Force Blue use an assembly line to transport stones to build a rubble wall in Ft. Walton Beach, Fla.

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  • National

Former Navy SEALs say they're making marine conservation cool

A group called Force Blue, which does conservation work across the country, is providing what they call "mission therapy" to veterans who miss the camaraderie and the sense of purpose of service.

March 11, 2025
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By:
  • Quil Lawrence
Cailyn Joseph, a graduate student in Andrew Baker's lab, organizes brain and elkhorn coral in Honduras before the trip to Miami.<br>

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  • Climate

Florida reefs are in trouble. Could the answer lie in coral from the Caribbean?

Scientists working to save Florida’s ailing reef hope Caribbean coral thriving in hotter water could bring some relief.

June 25, 2024
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By:
  • Jenny Staletovich
Christiane Keyhani (bottom left) and Liz Yannell (bottom right), of the non-profit group Hui O Ka Wai Ola, measure water quality along Lahaina's coast. The group is part of a coalition that mobilized in the wake of the fire to closely monitor the water quality off Lahaina.

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  • Climate

Maui community mobilizes to protect water quality from runoff after Lahaina fires

The debris from Lahaina's fire contains toxic chemicals and sits right next to a coral reef. So the community is collaborating with scientists to track water quality.

May 13, 2024
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By:
  • Lauren Sommer and
  • Ryan Kellman
Record levels of heat in the ocean are causing a worldwide mass bleaching event on coral reefs, as seen here on the Great Barrier Reef. Scientists are working on creating more heat-resistant coral to help restore reefs.

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  • Climate

Coral reefs can't keep up with climate change. So scientists are speeding up evolution

Climate change is heating oceans faster than the world's coral reefs can handle. So scientists are breeding corals that can withstand hotter temperatures – but only to a point.

April 17, 2024
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  • Lauren Sommer and
  • Ryan Kellman
During spawning corals release their eggs and sperm, filling the water like confetti, which combine to create the next generation of reef builders.

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  • Climate

Scientists are breeding 'super corals.' Can they withstand climate change?

Coral reefs face a dire future as oceans get hotter. Scientists are breeding corals that can handle heat better, in the hope they can survive long enough for humans to rein in climate change.

April 01, 2024
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  • Lauren Sommer and
  • Ryan Kellman
This type of staghorn coral (<em data-stringify-type="italic">Acropora pulchra</em>)<em data-stringify-type="italic"> </em>appeared to benefit from the presence of sea cucumbers (<em data-stringify-type="italic">Holothuria</em> <em data-stringify-type="italic">atra</em>), a new study finds.

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  • Research News

This often-overlooked sea creature may be quietly protecting the planet's coral reefs

The pickle-shaped bottom feeders may reduce the amount of microbes on the seafloor that could potentially sicken coral, scientists suggest

March 13, 2024
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  • Ari Daniel
As oceans get hotter, scientists are looking for ways to safeguard coral species so they can be used to restore reefs in the future.

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  • Climate

One way to save coral reefs? Deep freeze them for the future

As oceans get hotter, coral reefs are suffering. Scientists are working on ways to preserve coral by freezing and then reviving them to restore reefs someday.

September 06, 2023
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  • Lauren Sommer
The extreme wildfire that hit Lahaina burned all the way to the coast. As the cleanup continues, rainstorms could wash toxic runoff into the ocean.

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  • Climate

Another struggle after the Maui fires: keeping toxic runoff out of the ocean

There's little that separates the ocean from the 2,200 burned buildings in Lahaina. Officials are working to block runoff that could harm the coral reefs offshore.

August 29, 2023
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  • Lauren Sommer
Researchers found that plastic debris sits atop almost 92% of the reefs they studied, including some of the most remote and uninhabited ones. Here in Oman, plastic floats past an otherwise healthy reef.

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  • Environment

Plastic is suffocating coral reefs — and it's not just bottles and bags

A new study takes a comprehensive look at the plastic debris smothering reefs, where in the ocean it's more prevalent — and how to deal with the problem.

July 13, 2023
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
Scientist Amy Apprill, with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, places a recording device onto a coral reef in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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  • Environment

Fish make music! It could be the key to healing degraded coral reefs

The wondrous findings of a global project to record the sound of ocean habitats threatened by climate change and pollution — then play it through loud speakers set up next to troubled reefs.

June 17, 2023
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  • Nurith Aizenman
Australia's Great Barrier Reef is being hit hard by climate change, but new research is showing how some corals are more resilient to heat.

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  • Climate

How can coral reefs deal with climate change? Get better roommates

Hotter temperatures are threatening coral reefs worldwide. Now, scientists are pinpointing how some "super corals" are better able to withstand the heat.

December 29, 2022
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  • Lauren Sommer
Flooding in Ocean City, N.J. in October 2020. Thousands of coastal cities around the world are already dealing with rising sea levels, and face catastrophic sea level rise if global warming triggers runaway ice melt.

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  • Climate

Humans must limit warming to avoid climate tipping points, new study finds

The Earth has already warmed more than 1 degree Celsius. New research suggests that above 1.5 degrees, massive ice melt, ocean current disruptions and coral die-offs are likely.

September 08, 2022
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  • Rebecca Hersher
Australia's Great Barrier Reef has experienced four mass bleaching events in the last seven years, like this one in 2017. Scientists warn repeated bleaching makes it tough for corals to recover.

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  • Climate

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is hit with mass coral bleaching yet again

Some corals have turned a ghostly white due to extreme heat stress. It's the fourth bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef in the last seven years, which makes it harder to recover.

March 26, 2022
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  • Lauren Sommer
A kayaker paddles down an interstate in Pennsylvania after flooding from Hurricane Ida earlier this year. Several dozen people died, some in cars and basement apartments, during extreme flash flooding.

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  • Climate

This is what the world looks like if we pass the crucial 1.5-degree climate threshold

Despite new pledges to cut emissions, the world is not on track to hit a key climate change target of limiting warming. Scientists warn a planet that heats up more than that will look very different.

November 08, 2021
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  • Lauren Sommer
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