For a decade, Florida’s reefs have read like a tragedy: bleaching summers, relentless disease, and ghostly coral heads where color used to explode. Yet this season, divers and scientists are reporting a different kind of scene – new coral recruits, revived color on battered colonies, and garden-like patches where restoration teams have been tirelessly ...
Picture this: you’re casting your fishing line into the murky waters off Louisiana’s coast, expecting maybe a red snapper or speckled trout. Instead, something that looks like it swam straight out of a fairy tale breaks the surface. That’s exactly what happened to Thurman Gustin last summer, and his video has marine biologists buzzing. The ...
At dawn on a quiet Oʻahu beach, a rope line and a handwritten sign turned a crowd into a respectful semicircle, and a nursing monk seal pair into a small victory. For decades, these were a heartbreaking symbol of loss, slipping toward disappearance in remote atolls and increasingly on the main Hawaiian Islands. Today, ...
