{"id":17603,"date":"2025-10-23T18:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/17603\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T18:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:15:07","slug":"florida-corals-near-extinction-from-heat-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/17603\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Corals Near Extinction From Heat Shock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Extreme <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-04-16\/record-ocean-temperatures-are-plunging-the-world-s-coral-reefs-into-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">ocean heat<\/a> has eradicated two key coral species in Florida from a 350-mile-long reef that protects the state\u2019s coastal cities from storms and provides habitat for fisheries, scientists have found.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-07-24\/-unprecedented-ocean-heat-waves-in-2023-suggest-climate-tipping-point\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">record marine heat wave<\/a> in 2023 killed so many Acropora corals that two species are now \u201cfunctionally extinct,\u201d meaning that so few remain that they\u2019re no longer effectively adding to the coral structure, called <a href=\"https:\/\/floridadep.gov\/rcp\/coral-protection-restoration\/content\/floridas-coral-reef\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Florida\u2019s Coral Reef<\/a>, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.adx7825\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">study<\/a> published Thursday in the journal Science. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Extreme ocean heat has eradicated two key coral species in Florida from a 350-mile-long reef that protects the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2063,6103,5885,28,30,29,1182,14690,123,11952,14688,554,14689],"class_list":{"0":"post-17603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-cities","10":"tag-climate-change","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-florida-headlines","13":"tag-florida-news","14":"tag-green","15":"tag-honduras","16":"tag-miami","17":"tag-national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration","18":"tag-pillar","19":"tag-science","20":"tag-us-geological-survey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}