{"id":348621,"date":"2026-07-22T14:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348621\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T14:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:40:08","slug":"special-coral-rescue-effort-taking-place-off-south-florida-coast-newsradio-wiod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348621\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Coral Rescue Effort Taking Place Off South Florida Coast | NewsRadio WIOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Miami, FL) &#8211; A team of Florida marine biologists with the University of Miami is trying to save delicate corals from rising ocean temperatures by transferring them to land.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Diego Lirman runs the <a href=\"https:\/\/rescueareef.earth.miami.edu\/about\/our-lab\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Coral Restoration Lab at UM<\/a> and is collecting colonies of endangered elkhorn corals from the ocean Wednesday to be preserved at his facility.  <\/p>\n<p>He says the ocean water off South Florida is above 90-degrees and to prevent bleaching and death, the corals will be cared for on land.  About 50 colonies between 15-to-30-centimeters in size will be brought to shore as part of the state-funded rescue effort. <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Lirman says while some corals will die in the transfer, more will be saved from heat stress and bleaching. But adds, &#8220;after the water cools in a few months, the corals will be returned to the ocean.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In response to widespread coral bleaching and mortality events in 2023-24, coral scientists at the University of Miani Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric and Earth Science launched a coral reconnaissance and recovery mission to help protect elkhorn corals from anticipated heat stress.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Miami, FL) &#8211; A team of Florida marine biologists with the University of Miami is trying to save&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[126669,142710,18237,132275,225,227,226,142709,807],"class_list":["post-348621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-biologists","tag-coral-rescue-effort","tag-corals","tag-diego-lirman","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-ocean-temperatures","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348621","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=348621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}