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 ...
By day, the Florida Keys shimmer in postcard blues; by , the water seems to exhale light. Divers who cut their lamps often find the dark alive with quicksilver sparks, as if the sea were a shaken snow globe. Those flashes are more than spectacle: they’re signals, warnings, courtship displays, and sometimes decoys in a ...
On moonless nights in the Florida Keys, the water can look like a living constellation – points of light flaring and fading as if the sea had its own sky. For years, divers and fishers treated the glow as a trick of the eye or a postcard flourish, but scientists now see it as a ...
