Laurie MacLaughlin works in the coral nursery in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary in the Lower Keys.
With the apparently successful capping of the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, the Keys’ living coral reefs may be spared any ill effects of the disaster, but marine scientists say there are still plenty of reasons to be concerned over the health of the reef system.
Posted: Friday, August 06, 2010 11:00 AM EDT
This week federal regulators began hearing comments from the public about expanding the Turkey Point generating facility. It’s the beginning of a review process that will likely last more than two years.
Posted: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:00 AM EDT
Tim Hannah of Grassy Key shows a 4-inch lionfish he unexpectedly encountered in Gulf of Mexico waters about six miles north of Marathon on June 19.
Lionfish continue to turn up in unlikely waters in the Florida Keys, apparently willing to go wherever currents take them.
Tim Hannah of Grassy Key was returning from a June 19 fishing trip near Flamingo when he stopped at a favorite snorkeling spot where the Gulf of Mexico merges into Florida Bay.
Posted: Saturday, June 26, 2010 11:00 AM EDT
The battle to keep invasive lionfish out of the Keys has slowed as their numbers have grown.
A flood of lionfish sightings in Florida Keys waters has swamped the fish counters.
"It's gotten crazy. We're probably getting a dozen to 20 calls a day just from the Keys," said Alecia Adamson, field-operations coordinator for the Reef Environmental Education Foundation, based in Key Largo.
Posted: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 06:03 AM EDT
The joint command center for the response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday released the following information about a command center being activated in Florida:
Posted: Friday, June 11, 2010 11:34 AM EDT
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sent three teams of scientists this week to test shellfish, sediment and water in 60 locations along the Gulf of Mexico from the Keys to the Brazos River in Texas.
Posted - Friday, May 28, 2010 11:00 AM EDT
Wood storks, nearing the end of a productive nesting season in South Florida, adorn trees near nests in a rookery west of the Tamiami Trail.
A draft federal plan for more bridges to replace earthen dams along the Tamiami Trail won applause from Florida Bay advocates this week.
The National Park Service's draft environmental impact statement for the Everglades, released May 19, recommends bridging more than five additional miles of U.S. 41, commonly known as the Tamiami Trail.
Posted - Wednesday, May 26, 2010 11:00 AM EDT
Staghorn coral grows on a block of concrete pedestals in a nursery created by Ken Nidimyer in waters off the Upper Keys. (File photo-2007)
A three-year, $3.3 million coral restoration project to grow threatened staghorn and elkhorn corals to replenish decimated reefs started with the pioneering efforts of a Florida Keys resident who makes a living collecting tropical fish.
Posted - Friday, May 14, 2010 08:49 AM EDT
A flock of ibis flies in a group over the sawgrass in Everglades National Park.
Emmy Award-winning news anchor and best-selling author Tom Brokaw and Grammy Award-winning band Blues Traveler are among those joining hundreds of Everglades restoration supporters in Washington, D.C., on May 19 and 20 for the first-ever America's Everglades Summit, hosted by the Palmetto Bay-based Everglades Foundation and its partners.
Posted - Wednesday, May 12, 2010 11:00 AM EDT
An army of students and scientists descended on the waters and islands just north of the Keys last weekend to do a kind of scientific census of Biscayne National Park.
Posted - Friday, May 07, 2010 10:00 AM EDT
