Florida raises ill-fated artificial reefs
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When people began dumping used tires in the ocean 40 years ago to create artificial reefs, they gave little thought to the potential environmental cost, or to how difficult it would be to pick them up.
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More than 100 fibreglass &quot;reefs&quot; have been planted in the seabed off Thailand's coast to replace tsunami-damaged coral and revive the area's diving industry, the government said.
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MIAMI _ An algae bloom that has tainted waters adjacent to the main highway leading to the Florida Keys is moving north and threatens to spread into the heart of Biscayne Bay, playground for thousands of South Florida boaters.  It has already reached the bay's isolated southern reaches.
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Despite its nickname, the Sunshine State, Florida's heavy rains and pricey real estate mean it has never been considered a good place to set up big solar energy plants.
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By Carl Mario Nudi, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Mar. 10--BRADENTON BEACH -- The knee-deep stacks of rotting algae lining the beaches of Sarasota County have been sending the tourists north to Manatee County.
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By BRIAN SKOLOFF FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Just below the sea's surface off Florida's southeast coast lies a virtual gold mine. It's not sunken treasure or some Spanish galleon but instead nature's bounty, rows of coral reefs that generate billions of dollars a year in tourism spending.
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Marine researchers have discovered the deepest coral reef ever found in the United States in about 250 feet of water off the Florida coast.
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By Noah Bierman, The Miami Herald  Jun. 5--FORT PIERCE -- Florida taxpayers are about to acquire a 204-foot research ship, a pair of submarine pods that dive more than half a mile under water and a library of 47,000 sponges and microorganisms that may hold cures to cancer.
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Scientists are claiming that the unprecedented ferocity and frequency of the hurricanes that have battered the Caribbean this year can be blamed on one factor: the unexpectedly warm water that has been building up in the Atlantic over the past year.
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A Canadian-led study suggested planned seafloor mining will put undersea habitats supporting rare and potentially valuable organisms at risk.
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As Florida Gators faithful know too well, the season opener wasn&#39;t played last Saturday, thanks to the nasty doings of Hurricane Frances.
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By Anonymous  Size and shape may predict the survival of coral reefs around the world when the weather churns the oceans in the years to come, according to a new model that relies on engineering principles.
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A new study shows that ocean acidification may be bad for crustose coralline algae, another important coral reef builder.
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A plan to create fish refuges off the South Carolina coast sparked a clash between fishermen and conservationists.
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NORFOLK, Va. - In an unusual experiment two years ago, unwanted toilets, sinks and other porcelain products were smashed to bits and shaped into two artificial oyster reefs...
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Don&#39;t write off Florida as a place to escape this winter. So say tourism officials, who worry that images of destruction in the wake of Hurricane Charley could scare away visitors and jeopardize the state&#39;s $51 billion-a-year ...
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DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla., Dec. 14, 2006 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- In a move to accelerate Red Reef Labs' ability to offer a sophisticated testing facility in South Florida, Certified Environmental Services, Inc.