The announcement came early on the morning of Oct. 31. Delegates to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity summit (COP16) in Cali, Colombia, had finally agreed on a protocol for ...

PUBLIC NOTICE   FROM The Department of Environment and Coastal Resources (DECR) Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands ...

senior adviser with Gulf of Mexico Ocean Observation System; Dave Tomasko, executive director of the Sarasota Bay Estuary ...

Also known as “sea cows,” manatees are the largest ocean herbivore. 4. The elephant is the closest living relative to manatees. Manatees evolved from the same land animals as elephants over 50 million ...

I’ve been a Miami resident all my life. Born and raised. Most people don’t believe me when I tell them – they say “You’re FROM Miami?” Like it’s the craziest ...

A large red tide that bloomed after hurricanes Helene and Milton remains miles offshore from Sarasota and Manatee counties.

The Caribbean US territory of Puerto Rico, likened to a "floating island of garbage" at a Republican rally in New York, on ...

The organism that causes red tide was detected in 49 samples along the coast of Southwest Florida. But bloom-level ...

This movement aligns with typical ocean currents in the region ... Hillsborough County has background to low concentrations, while Manatee and Sarasota counties have background to medium ...

The manatees were rescued by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and the Manatee Rescue & ...

After one week of recovery efforts following Hurricane Milton’s devastating impact on Manatee County, high school football is back Friday night. And there’s a potential classic brewing with ...

A bleached coral is not dead, but ocean temperatures need to cool off for any hope of recovery. At least 14% of the world’s remaining corals were estimated to have died in the previous two ...