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Coral reef conservation efforts will soon get a major boost with a global monitoring system that will detect physical changes in coral cover at high resolution on a daily basis. The satellite-based ...

Several organizations, with the support of WWF Central America, have joined forces to guarantee the long-term financial sustainability of efforts to conserve the Mesoamerican Reef System (MRS).

The coastal area of Belize is an outstanding natural system consisting of the largest barrier reef in the northern hemisphere, offshore atolls, several hundred sand cays, mangrove forests, coastal ...

The endangered hawksbill sea turtle is one of hundreds of marine species that live in or migrate through the Veracruz Reef System, which environmental lawyers say is threatened by the expansion of a ...

Athens, Ga. - A new reef system has been found at the mouth of the Amazon River, the largest river by discharge of water in the world. As large rivers empty into the world's oceans in areas known as ...

A 65-foot trawler is the latest large vessel added to South Carolina’s fleet of artificial reefs. The decommissioned shrimp boat was deployed off Georgetown in October and is helping to create more ...

Extending from the southern tip of French Guiana to the Maranhão State of Brazil, the extensive sponge and coral reef system is 1,000-km (600-mile) long and unlike any tropical reef that has ever been ...

The changes that the Amazon River promotes in the tropical North Atlantic ocean water make an unfavorable environment for reef development. Every second, 175 million liters of water mixed with ...

It demonstrates that the onset of reef growth on the outer shelf was preceded by a rise in summer temperature from ~26° to ~28°C at around 700 thousand years ago (marine isotope stage 17). This ...

As large rivers empty into the world's oceans in areas known as plumes, they typically create gaps in the reef distribution along the tropical shelves--something that makes finding a reef in the ...