DESTIN, Fla. (WKRG) — More living shorelines and artificial reefs are popping up in Northwest Florida. The Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance (CBA) installed part of a new oyster reef this week in the bay ...

Healthy coral reefs provide their adjacent coasts with substantially more protection from destructive tsunami waves than do unhealthy or dead reefs, a Princeton University study suggests. Initially ...

Dozens of high school students and other volunteers spent Friday morning stuffing recycled oyster shells into mesh bags — the first step in a plan to create a "living reef" to fight land loss along ...

Florida’s iconic reef tract has not vanished in its entirety, but its architectural backbone has effectively collapsed. The key reef-building corals that once formed a living storm wall along the ...

The Living Architecture of Our Oceans " These incredible structures are built by tiny animals called polyps that secrete ...

Besides preserving and growing coral species, the Maui Ocean Center features a Living Reef Exhibit in its large aquarium. Courtesy photo/Maui Ocean Center At one of the largest saltwater aquarium ...

Environmental groups are buying uneaten oysters to build living shorelines. Environmental groups and oyster farmers have found a silver lining -- or a pearl -- amid the ravages of the pandemic.

James Porter stood next to a large display containing exotic butterflies collected in recent years in Costa Rica and as a comparison these insects are exhibited next to renderings of the same type ...

Healthy marine ecosystems are essential for human well-being, and millions of people around the world rely on coral reefs for food, protection, recreation, medicine, cultural connection and economic ...

While world leaders dither about how to tackle climate change, an eerie echo of global warming’s destructive power has been playing out in a project created as an artistic response to this apocalypse.

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) – Rose-Marie Skagerholm and her sister wanted to give their father a final resting place that made sense. Nils Arvidsson passed away at age 76. The Manatee County resident ...