Sea Urchins Keep Surviving As Marine Life Languishes In The Florida Keys
Marine life in the Florida Keys is negatively impacted by two nefarious forces: human activity and climate change. The former involves fishing, tourism, and diving, while the latter causes a spike in intense hurricanes. As such, when Florida museum researchers started looking for sea urchins on the ocean floor off the coast of the Florida Keys back in the summer of 2020, they uncovered some good news: their population was relatively stable since the 1960s....