These maps show seagrass coverage in the Titusville ... the 21st century may be great for Florida’s economy, but a disaster for Florida’s seagrass. Though there have been improvements, the ...

Scientists at two universities are using artificial intelligence to map boat damage in the bay ... void of life-sustaining seagrass. The irrefutable damage left by humans. Soon, the scars are ...

It’s the first time Tampa Bay has experienced seagrass losses in three consecutive map studies ... low amount of the plant crucial to life in Florida’s largest open-water estuary.

Editor’s note: This story is part one of a two-part series on the catastrophic seagrass die-offs plaguing nearly all of Florida’s coastal waters. The die-offs persist, raising the question ...

Capt. Benny Blanco guides fishing clients in the Florida Bay in 2022. Some seagrass flats in the bay suffered severe die-offs in 2015, triggered by high salinity relating to a lack of freshwater ...

The grass is seldom greener these days on the underside of the Indian River Lagoon. For the past decade, the waterway has become a graveyard for seagrass: the place where it just dies. Rhizomes ...

It’s one of several projects underway in Florida (a similar initiative at Brevard zoo was launched as part of its “restore our shores” effort) in which a diverse range of seagrass varieties ...

This is not the case for most other seagrass ecosystems the world over, nearly 30% of which have disappeared since 1879. An estimated 7% of seagrass beds were lost each year between 1990 and 2009.

You can get in touch with Jess by emailing [email protected]. Seagrass growing in the waters off Florida's Gulf Coast has been dying off at a rapid rate over the past few years as a result of ...

Manatees are not the only marine mammals that suffer when seagrass dies off in Florida. A new study found that dolphins in the Indian River Lagoon starved when seagrass meadows declined as well.

Until the atlas’s release last year, much of West Africa was a blank spot on the world’s seagrass map. Just a handful of years ago, many officials at Sierra Leone’s Environment Protection ...