Rising Ocean Temperatures Threaten Florida's Coral Reef - New York Times

Rising Ocean Temperatures Threaten Florida's Coral Reef - New York Times: "On May 9, for the first time, two species of Caribbean coral — acropora palmata, or elkhorn, and acropora cervicornis, or staghorn — were added to the list of threatened species under the federal Endangered Species Act. It was a needed step, say marine biologists and environmentalists who focus on coral, and probably overdue, but just one narrow glimpse at the universe of woes affecting the undersea invertebrates in the Keys, throughout the Caribbean and across the globe."