There’s no doubt that newer homes in the Florida Keys are more likely to survive a hurricane's winds and even storm surge, but the existential threat is the rising ocean.
During a scouting mission to check on coral colonies in inshore Biscayne Bay last year, Caroline Dennison and a few other marine biology graduate students found something astounding: healthy populations of brain corals.
Thousands lined Florida's beaches to demand state leaders stop future red tide and blue-green toxic algae outbreaks that are killing wildlife and threatening public health.
