At 18 feet above sea level, Solares Hill is the highest point of land in Key West, yet the lofty elevation would have been no ...

Monroe County officials, first responders and partner agencies took the county’s Emergency Operations Center for a test drive ...

Three months after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis rejected the comprehensive Restoration Blueprint for the Florida Keys National ...

The forming heat wave is rated strong-to-severe (Level 2 or 3 out of 5) according to NOAA ... marine heat wave conditions extend from Florida’s Big Bend southward to the Florida Keys, where ...

until they're ready to be planted at NOAA’s Mission: Iconic Reefs sites within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Mission: Iconic Reefs is one of the world's largest coral restoration ...

More than 1,000 coral babies spawned and raised at The Florida Aquarium are headed to ... loaded into a van to be driven to the Keys Marine Laboratory on Long Key in Layton. When they arrive ...

The information generated helps NOAA protect and restore natural resources and habitats, update nautical charts and understand the effects ... surface of the intertidal zone near Fisher Island, ...

Results of the study, published in the Journal of Marine Science Engineering, reveal that nearly 8% of the approximately 2,550 kilometers of shoreline in the Florida Keys ... of NOAA's NOS ...

A NOAA diver in 2014 photographs a reef inside the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. New rules would help the reef recover from impacts like the stony coral disease that has since spread ...

The 81-year-old was a fixture in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s efforts to create protections for the Florida Keys marine ecosystem for decades. NOAA’s Office of ...

The federal agency finalized the first management plan update since 2007 for the coral-rich ecosystem at Florida ... to the Keys’ marine-tropical climate, according to NOAA.