Armed with spears and nets, a team of determined divers took the plunge into Florida's pristine waters on a mission of environmental importance.

With venomous, featherlike spines, the beautiful fish – distinguished by their red, brown and white stripes – threaten Florida’s reef ecosystems so severely that the state’s Fish and ...

The beautiful fish threaten Florida's reef ecosystems so dangerously that the state's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has organized contests to reward divers who kill and remove them.

Fourteen teams of scuba divers took to the water and collected 1,527 invasive lionfish during the 2024 Florida Keys Lionfish ...

Scientists sent hundreds of critically endangered corals from South Florida to the Texas Gulf Coast on Wednesday in a ...

A Florida county is in talks to acquire a storied but aging ocean liner in a proposed deal that could create the largest ...

Scientists at Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota are celebrating a milestone. They bred smooth flower coral — one of the most difficult coral species to spawn in captivity.

Okaloosa County's tourism division hopes the addition of the ship as an artificial reef would bolster its status as a ...

Jessica McCawley is the FWC Director of Marine Fisheries Management. She says the Monroe County program is working to create a network of sites in the Gulf.

After a brutally hot summer in 2023 that caused widespread bleaching and coral death, summer 2024 was more favorable for the ...

By removing thousands of predatory reef fish from Florida's waters, participants helped to protect the beauty of the underwater world. According to the FWC, the lionfish's voracious appetite ...