Map from Healthy Reefs Initiative ... and contributes nearly a quarter of overall GDP in Belize. The Mesoamerican Reef ecosystem encompasses barrier, fringe, patch, and atoll coral reefs, as ...

The Mesoamerican Reef system stretches more than 600 miles along the coasts of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. Its Australian cousin, the Great Barrier Reef, is great indeed at 1,429 ...

"Over the past decade, we have documented a slow but positive recovery of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System," said Dr. Melanie McField, director of the Healthy Reefs Initiative. "But this ...

Climate change, human activity lead to nearshore coral growth decline Declining growth of Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System corals predicts trouble for worldwide reefs Date: August 28, 2019 Source: ...

The Mesoamerican Reef, the longest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere, stretches 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) along the Caribbean coasts of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras. The latest ...

Editor’s Note: This story was identified by Patricia Zurita, who is guest editor for Call to Earth’s “Nature’s Highways” theme. For sharks, turtles and rays in the Caribbean, the ...

Mexico is one of the best countries in the world for scuba diving. Its coastline boasts the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef, the largest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere (and the second largest in ...

"Over the past decade, we have documented a slow but positive recovery of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System," said Dr. Melanie McField, director of the Healthy Reefs Initiative. "But this ...