by CORAL Magazine | Mar 3, 2022 | Marine, News & Notes
MIAMI—A new study found that seafloor sediments have the potential to transmit a deadly pathogen to local corals and hypothesizes that sediments have played a role in the persistence of a devastating coral disease outbreak throughout Florida and the Caribbean. Coral...
by James Lawrence | Jan 8, 2021 | CORAL - James Lawrence, CORAL Excerpt, Marine
Excerpt from the Editor’s Page of the January/February 2021 issue of CORAL Magazine. This issue should probably come with a warning label: CAUTION—Contents may trigger obsessive, addictive, and budget-stretching behaviors. Who among us has not thrilled at the...
by CORAL Magazine | Aug 21, 2020 | Marine
via Mote Marine Lab Sarasota, Florida For the first time in Florida or Caribbean waters, restored massive corals were observed spawning—part of sexual reproduction that could result in the next generation of coral offspring—thanks to Mote Marine Laboratory &...
by CORAL Magazine | Sep 16, 2015 | Marine, News & Notes
via NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program NOAA Scientists recently documented early signs of coral bleaching in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. The images below were taken in late August and show mountainous star coral and pillar coral beginning to bleach...