Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago
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Narrated video showing Looe Key Reef, Florida Keys, in December 2024, one year after recovery from the very high seawater temperatures of summer 2023. Compare this video with the same shallow site from March 2023, just before the summer heat:
youtu.be/yyoiB4EKdH4
Temperature data from NOAA for summer 2023 can be found here (select 2023-2024 in right-side column to see the comparison):
coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/product/vs/timeseries/florida.php#florida_keys
Living hard coral cover at this site declined from ~33% in 1984 to ~6% in 2008, then downward from there to the present time. See this excellent scientific article (Lapoint et al. 2019) on the history of Looe Key, including maps and photos of the site, photos of dying corals, and data and discussion of the interactive effects of nutrient pollution on the decline in coral cover:
link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00227-019-3538-9
Change settings to 2160p60 4K for best resolution, if your system won't skip!
Narrated video showing Looe Key Reef, Florida Keys, in December 2024, one year after recovery from the very high seawater temperatures of summer 2023. Compare this video with the same shallow site from March 2023, just before the summer heat:
youtu.be/yyoiB4EKdH4
Temperature data from NOAA for summer 2023 can be found here (select 2023-2024 in right-side column to see the comparison):
coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/product/vs/timeseries/florida.php#florida_keys
Living hard coral cover at this site declined from ~33% in 1984 to ~6% in 2008, then downward from there to the present time. See this excellent scientific article (Lapoint et al. 2019) on the history of Looe Key, including maps and photos of the site, photos of dying corals, and data and discussion of the interactive effects of nutrient pollution on the decline in coral cover:
link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00227-019-3538-9
