Coral reef restoration has cost $250 million, but reefs are worth 1,000 times that
The healthy reefs in the Florida Keys alone yield $6.3 billion in revenue every year.
The healthy reefs in the Florida Keys alone yield $6.3 billion in revenue every year.
Coral restoration programs are expanding, but local and global stressors still threaten coral survival.
Researchers found the nation’s reefs spare about 18,000 people and $1.8 billion in economic assets from floods each year.
The project will implement and scale-up new approaches to increase the climate resilience of Florida’s Coral Reef.
A major focus of the collaborative research is on how urchins can improve the growth and survival of corals.
Researchers from FAU investigated how coral populations at different depths and locations may be related to each other.
Coral reefs are crucial to marine biodiversity and serve as important buffers protecting shorelines from the violence of storms.
University of Miami researchers imported corals from Honduras to breed them with Florida corals for more resilient offspring.
Since the beginning of 2023, corals have been dying in the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic oceans, both north and south ...
Scientists, ocean officials and conservationists are racing against climate change to save the only barrier reef in the continental US.
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