Port Expansion Dredging Decimates Coral Populations on Miami Coast

Officials recently expanded the Port of Miami to allow in larger ships, impacting local coral colonies in the process.

By Jennifer Walter
Jun 3, 2019 10:15 PMFeb 23, 2020 9:19 PM
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Coral reefs along the Florida coastline are struggling. Disease has been running rampant among colonies in recent years, and now researchers have found that a billion-dollar dredging project that wrapped up in 2015 killed off more than half of the coral population in the Port of Miami.

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