Oil Spill Money Turning Into Gulf Artificial Reef Bonanza
A bonanza of artificial reefs is coming to Gulf of Mexico waters near Panama City because of an infusion of oil spill money.
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A bonanza of artificial reefs is coming to Gulf of Mexico waters near Panama City because of an infusion of oil spill money.
Seeking to protect the coral reefs near Port Everglades which may be damaged if a dredging project moves forward, an environmental and a recreational dive group have filed suit in Miami federal court.
Scientists and volunteers planted 200 live coral fragments Monday in the waters off Key West's Fort Zachary Taylor State Park, launching an effort to restore depleted reef tracts and create an educational public snorkel park.
Increasingly acidic seawater due to global warming is eating away the limestone framework of coral reefs in the upper Florida Keys, according to a new study.
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A dozen wounded veterans are wrapping up several days of diving in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Tuesday to help transplant corals on a special section of the reef set aside as a remembrance area for fallen American service personnel.
ova Southeastern University's Oceanographic Center has launched a crowdsourcing campaign to raise money to expand its coral reef restoration project.
Divers are collecting corals from a shipping channel off Port Miami in an effort to save them. Plans call for the channel to be deepened to accommodate much bigger ships that soon will pass through a widened Panama Canal.
When President Barack Obama appeared at Coral Reef High School, he was met with applause and cheers. But at least one Coral Reef Senior High teacher said his dislike of Obama kept him from attending the president's speech.
Divers in the Florida Keys have become subsea voyeurs of sort, witnessing a fascinating yet fragile annual reproductive phenomenon on coral reefs.
A solar-powered, electrified coral reef experiment aims to help marine conservation.
A group of South Florida lawmakers put on their wetsuits Saturday and dove down under in the Keys to raise awareness about the future of Aquarius.
The last publicly-funded undersea research lab to closely monitor a coral reef may be closing.
You listen to it in your car, on your phone and while you exercise. On Saturday, a few people in the Keys even listened to music underwater.
Just off Florida's shore lies one of its greatest resources – a living coral reef. This fall, Nova Southeastern University is set to open a new coral reef research center at Port Everglades.
Federal stimulus money is being used to help stimulate the growth of coral reef along Florida shores in a massive restoration effort.
It started with the best of intentions, take tires filling up landfills and use them to create an artificial reef. After pouring more than a million tires off our coastline the organizers quickly realized they had made a huge environmental mistake.
The family of a Coral Reef High School student is speaking out following a basketball brawl that landed their teenage boy in intensive care.
What started out as a simple basketball game, ended up with one student being rushed to the hospital after suffering a brutal beating.
In this week's edition of Aquatic Adventures, CBS4's Jeff Berardelli goes on an underwater expedition in the Keys.
An 11-day celebration honoring the 50th anniversary of the creation of America's first underwater preserve, John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, has begun in Key Largo.
