FAIRHOPE, Ala. (WALA) - Mobile Bay waters will be just a little bit cleaner thanks to the placement of 60 Mini Reefs along Alabama shorelines Tuesday, December 5, 2023. The city of Fairhope purchased ...

VENICE – Former Venice mayor John Holic, currently commodore of the Venice Yacht Club, asked the City Council to give $5,000 to Sarasota Bay Watch, to support Roberts Bay Artificial Reef Project No. 1 ...

POINT CLEAR, Ala. (WKRG) — A Mobile Boy Scout’s Eagle Project to help grow marine habitat has two new partners, and growing ambitions. The University of South Alabama Stokes School of Marine and ...

MARATHON, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis announced additional money for artificial reef recovery and an extra day for the mini-season for spiny lobsters exclusively for Florida residents. At a press ...

John Shell fondly recalls going out on the boat with his dad, reeling in fish from Mobile Bay when he was a child. On a Boy Scout camping trip about five years ago, he noticed something was different ...

FAIRHOPE, Ala. (WALA) - Eagle Scout, John Shell of Mobile set out a year ago to do something that would make a difference for those who fish and play along coastal Alabama’s waterways. Since then, he ...

What started as a high school student’s Eagle Scout project to provide habitats for fish and improve water quality on the Gulf Coast has expanded exponentially with the help of a city, a university ...

The planet is grappling with a “new reality” as it reaches the first in a series of catastrophic and potentially irreversible climate tipping points: the widespread death of coral reefs, according to ...

Thanks to the dire condition of the Earth's coral reefs, the planet has now reached its first tipping point for human-caused climate change, according to a new report by scientists in Europe. The ...

Mauricio Maldonado is a digital editor for CBS Miami and has been a digital journalist in the South Florida area since 1997. Mauricio started at the Miami Herald in 1990 and transitioned over to their ...