Climate Change
For Florida Corals, Unprecedented Marine Heat Prompts New Restoration Strategy—On Shore
North America’s only barrier reef is withering from heat and disease. Can efforts to preserve and propagate the corals at land-based facilities save them?
ORLANDO, Fla.—Tucked away in an office park hundreds of miles from the southeast Florida coast where North America’s only barrier reef is at dire risk, a collection of brain corals performed a once-a-year feat—producing a constellation of egg sacks, each a bundle of hope.
For Florida Corals, Unprecedented Marine Heat Prompts New Restoration Strategy—On Shore