Four and a half miles north of Grand Isle, large cranes dropped bulbous gray blobs of concrete into Barataria Bay on Wednesday morning. The lumpy structures will become a new habitat for sport fish ...

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — If you build it, they will come. Just eight months after Ocean Rescue Alliance International deployed 50 artificial reef structures off the shores of Hollywood Beach, the underwater ...

About seven and a half miles off the coast of Bonita Beach, under 30 feet of water, lies a unique classroom. Florida Gulf Coast University researchers dropped Kimberly's Reef into the Gulf just over ...

MIAMI — In a warehouse, Colin Foord is a doting father overseeing a coral nursery. His charges are a type of soft coral called gorgonians. "They're a fundamentally important part of the Caribbean and ...

NOW, A NEW ARTIFICIAL CORAL REEF WAS INSTALLED OFF THE COAST OF GRAND ISLE TODAY. NOW, THIS REEF IS THE LARGEST INSHORE REEF COASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION THAT LOUISIANA HAS INSTALLED IN SIX YEARS.

Researchers are designing a global real-time monitoring system to help save the world's coral reefs from further decline, primarily due to bleaching caused by global warming. Australian researchers ...