After the historic 2023 bleaching event, the state paid to increase the lab's coral rescue capacity for when the ocean gets too hot again.

Researchers are producing new corals using the genes of those more resilient to heat, they've established two gene banks and they are doing cooling experiments, like canopies that float on the water.

A federal bill would ban Florida shark dive operators from feeding sharks. Its sponsors say the ban is about safety. People who know the water, including fishers, doubt it would change much.

After the 2024 hurricanes, houses are moving up.

Underresourced farmworkers can experience physical and mental symptoms while working under the Florida sun. But heat is not their only worry, according to one advocate.

Researchers are moving some corals to deeper, cooler depths, while more sensitive ones go to a temperature-controlled lab. Others will have to tough out the heat.

With Florida's peak heat hitting Friday, a Tampa delivery driver shares how working in triple digit temps impacts his life.

Gov. Ron DeSantis characterized the clean energy goals the law bans as “radical climate policies,” although experts say the law will not necessarily upend the plans.

Gulf sturgeon jump for buoyancy and communication, explained retired fish biologist Ken Sulak.

Larry Wallach’s commercial exotic animal business was shuttered by New York courts and federal regulators declined his application to exhibit animals. Now he’s pitching a new sloth encounter business in Florida.

A 20-year record reveals an estuary tipping toward a saltier, more acidic state. These conditions threaten its hammerhead shark nursery and the aquifer that supplies Miami’s drinking water.

The Orlando plant had been scheduled for retirement in 2025. The order cited an energy emergency related to a shortage of facilities and proliferation of data centers.