Local scientists help mitigate ‘unimaginable’ coral deaths

Corals are living organisms critical to marine ecosystems and economies, and an "unprecedented" heat wave fueling increasingly warmer waters has decimated Florida's reefs.

Local organizations are now gathering the endangered species to prevent extinction. University of South Florida St. Petersburg officials announced Monday that school scientists and researchers from the Florida Institute of Oceanography (FIO), housed on the campus, are storing thousands of corals at the organization’s Keys Marine Laboratory (KML).

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‘Humbler’ metalworks on view at Arts & Crafts Museum

It’s generally accepted that what became the central manifesto of the American Arts & Crafts Movement was first uttered by British textile designer William Morris: “Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”

The Museum of the American Arts & Crafts Movement, at 355 4th Street North, St. Petersburg, consists of five stories of gallery space dedicated to stunning “decorative arts” created between, approximately, 1890 to 1930. What’s on view is a rotating cross-section of the massive private collection of Pinellas County resident Rudy Ciccarello, who opened the museum in 2021, and his Two Red Roses Foundation.