As Sargassum levels surge to unprecedented amounts across parts of the Atlantic basin, some beaches in the Caribbean have ...

Seagrasses are critical to coastal ecosystems—offering habitat, stabilizing the seafloor and buffering wave energy—but ...

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 ...

A new study shows that seagrass ecosystems along the northern half of Florida's Gulf Coast have remained relatively healthy and undisturbed for the last several thousand years. The seagrass is ...

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.

Florida Keys: Bonnethead sharks ... New international efforts are also underway to create an up-to-date map of seagrass colonies all over the world—a baseline for assessing what we stand ...

The SBEP recently announced it received the 2024 seagrass maps, which were completed by the Southwest Florida Water Management District. The maps showed an increase of 1,912 acres of seagrass ...

The Southwest Florida Water Management ... Manatee and Sarasota counties. Seagrass is mapped and reported for each bay segment. Click here to view the maps for 2022 and 2024.

It has long been the type of fantastical realm so uncharted that on the old maps ... not just cut down the seagrass, warned James Fourqurean, a biology professor at Florida International University.

“The reason why we map seagrass is because it gives us the pulse ... CLIFFORD | Times ] The Southwest Florida Water Management doesn’t just track Tampa Bay’s seagrass coverage.