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After 10,000 years on Florida coast, 2 key corals are dead

Heat Has Essentially Wiped Out 2 Key Coral Species on Florida Reefs

The findings are a bracing example of the toll that climate change is wreaking on the world’s coral reefs, which support an estimated quarter of marine species, including fish that provide crucial pr...

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Marine heat wave caused key part of Florida's coral reef to become "functionally extinct," report says

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'Functionally extinct': After 10,000 years on the Florida coast, two key corals are dead

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2 iconic coral species are now functionally extinct off Florida, study finds – we witnessed the reef’s bleaching and devastation

The temperatures were so high in the middle and lower Florida Keys that some corals died within days from acute heat shock.

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'Functionally extinct': Heat wave left Florida coral species on brink

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Corales críticos de la Florida están ahora “funcionalmente extintos” debido a las temperaturas oceánicas sin precedentes

Earth.com

Coral reefs have become Earth's first ecosystems to pass the "planetary tipping point"

Coral reefs have passed their survival limit, confirming Earth’s first tipping point and signaling more irreversible climate shifts ahead.

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Coral reef collapse drives world across first climate tipping point

The dire condition of the Earth's coral reefs means the planet has now reached its first tipping point from human-caused climate change, report finds.

Miami Beach puts the art in offshore artificial reef

The artificial reef off Miami Beach will be an art installation, a restoration of the island's coral habitat and an underwater tourist attraction.

Reuters

More than 60% of world's coral reefs may have bleached in past year, NOAA says

May 16 (Reuters) - Nearly two-thirds of the world's coral reefs have been subjected to heat stress bad enough to trigger bleaching over the past year, the leading agency monitoring coral reefs said on Thursday. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

CNN

An explosion of sea urchins threatens to push coral reefs in Hawaii ‘past the point of recovery’

The turquoise water of Hōnaunau Bay in Hawaii, an area popular with snorkelers and divers, is teeming with spiny creatures that threaten to push the coral reef “past the point of recovery,” new research has found. Sea urchin numbers here are exploding ...

Hawaii News Now

Sea urchin explosion on Hawaii Island threatens to push popular reefs ‘past the point of recovery,’ researchers say

HAWAII ISLAND (HawaiiNewsNow) - A popular area for snorkelers and divers on Hawaii Island has seen an explosion of sea urchins that are threatening to push the coral reef “past the point of recovery.” According to a study published last month in the ...