READ MORE: Where Was Santa Claus Born? The Florida Reef, also known as the Great Florida Reef, is the only living coral barrier reef in the continental United States and the third largest in the ...

Now, to keep Florida’s reef alive, scientists have to breed corals almost entirely in labs on land, where the water is clean ...

A form of coral known as the "bent sea rod" experiencing bleaching off Florida's coast in 2014 ... which coral colonies in the Southern Great Barrier Reef faced bleaching and then death in ...

The authors also identified where reef restoration would be cost effective on the coasts of Florida and Puerto Rico ... would need to be raised at great expense. However, coral reefs are living ...