BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – In Brevard County, a unique conservation effort is underway to restore the Indian River Lagoon by recycling oyster shells from local restaurants. The Shuck and Share program, ...

At a time when Florida needed a rallying cry, interim coach Billy Gonzales brought it and made it stick. His sentiment of playing for the patch rang through the Florida program and continues to ...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — South Florida is seeing a wave of new cars, but they won’t add to traffic or lengthen anyone’s commute. That’s because the cars are made of marine-grade concrete and were ...

Since leaving the "Love Island USA" villa, Nic Vansteenberghe's been on the move. There was the "baecation" with his fellow runner-up Olandria Carthen, then more recently, a Miami trip alongside ...

After a searing ocean heat wave in 2023, two of the most historically important coral species in Florida are functionally extinct from the state’s reef, scientists have found. Elkhorn and staghorn ...

BODYCAM: Florida man arrested after bizarre forklift and ATM joyride through streets A man is in custody after Florida police say he was involved in an unusual crime spree involving a stolen forklift ...

After 10,000 years, they're now gone. Nearly all of Florida’s critically endangered Acropora coral colonies are now dead, after a record-breaking ocean heat wave in 2023. This marks the species’ ...

In early June 2023, the coral reefs in the lower Florida Keys and the Dry Tortugas were stunning. We were in diving gear, checking up on hundreds of corals we had transplanted as part of our ...

A record-setting marine heat wave stripped huge portions of Florida's coral reef of their colors in 2023, triggering the ninth and worst mass bleaching event in the Caribbean. Temperatures soared for ...

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Carly D. Kenkel has received funding from NSF, NOAA, The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group, the Mary Gard ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Carly D. Kenkel, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Jenna Dilworth, ...