Art and marine ecology are blending together off South Florida’s coast with new large-scale, coral-infused sculptures that are part of The Reefline. The installation, which features concrete sculptures embedded with more than 2,000 native corals, is being used to help restore the rampant coral loss off Florida’s coast. According to NASA’s Earth Observatory, healthy coral on Florida’s reef has declined 90% since the 1970s, due to a combination of disease, heat stress, pollution, development, hurr

A devastating new study has revealed that two vital coral species in Florida’s coral reef — elkhorn and staghorn corals — are now considered functionally extinct following a record-breaking marine heat wave in 2023. Jyotsna Kumar tells you more | WION