Key deer safely removed from CFK’s Big Pine Key property
The College of the Florida Keys (CFK), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), cooperating veterinarians and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) collaborated to...
A week under the sea: State funding supports research trips at Keys’ new undersea...
New funding from the state of Florida will fund a week underwater in the Florida Keys for research teams.
Ocean engineering firm Deep has received...
Ocean temps around the Florida Keys surpass record-breaking coral bleaching year
Florida Keys reefs are heating up.
NOAA Coral Reef Watch is reporting that ocean temperatures around south Florida and the Bahamas are already warmer than...
County deploys third artificial reef in the Gulf, plans for fourth
This week, Monroe County’s artificial reefs program announced its second reef material deployment off Key West in the Florida Keys. These deployments help create...
New subsea habitat deployed off the Florida Keys embarks on several missions
Deep’s Vanguard is now installed on the seafloor at Tennessee Reef in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, becoming the first open-ocean subsea human...
‘We know what’s coming’: Keys coral practitioners prepared for rescues amid bleaching threats
As forecasters warn of an unusually strong El Niño that could drive dangerously warm ocean temperatures across the Florida Keys this summer, the organizations...
Florida Python Challenge seeks to remove nonnative species from Everglades
There’s a contest in Florida with prizes for those who remove invasive Burmese pythons from the Everglades.
Dubbed the Florida Python Challenge, registered participants will...
El Niño conditions elevate coral bleaching risks on Florida’s reef
As of June 11, NOAA assessments indicate El Niño conditions have officially begun and are forecast to strengthen from the current time through winter...
Monroe County offers guidance amid sargassum overload
Monroe County is coordinating with state regulating agencies and local partners to publish guidance on the widespread influx of sargassum grass affecting oceanside shorelines...
Tourism funding helps rebuild Florida Keys reefs after historic marine heatwave
Three years after an unprecedented marine heat wave devastated reefs across the Florida Keys, restoration practitioners are continuing the long process of rebuilding coral...
