Restoring Florida's Mangroves

Hurricanes and changes to natural hydrology have hammered Florida's mangroves, but restoration efforts are seeing some success. Read more in this piece for The Revelator, one of the publication's 15 most newsworthy articles in 2025. 

Playing Matchmaker for Corals

Improving the success of sexual reproduction is another tool for restoring the world’s coral reefs. Read about a project working on this method in Florida and the Caribbean. 

Planting Coral Reefs

 The Coral Restoration Foundation in Florida heads up a massive outplanting project to help save coral reefs. This piece for The Revelator explains how volunteers are integral to the effort. 

Coral restoration in Florida

Marine photographer Brandon Cole and I produced this photo essay exploring efforts to protect at-risk coral reefs off Florida’s Atlantic coast for Yale Climate Connections. 

Kelp Loss on the West Coast

Divers and scientists watched a disaster play out along the U.S. West Coast: an almost overnight disappearance of sea stars, especially sunflower sea stars, followed by a population explosion of the purple urchins that sea stars eat, and then loss of entire forests of bull kelp. Read what is behind the disaster and what scientists are doing in response here.