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 ...

This graphic, from the HRI 2012 Report Card for the Mesoamerican Reef, shows changes in the SIRHI score, representing reef health, at 80 sites monitored in 2005-2006 and again in 2011-2012. Each ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

The Mesoamerican Reef (MAR) is the second longest barrier reef in the world, only surpassed by the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. How can the cost of managing a network of protected areas be ...

On a recent trip to the Yucatan Peninsula, I visited the Mesoamerican Reef, which stretches 600 miles from the Yucatan to Honduras and is the second-largest barrier reef in the world. When I was ...

"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 ...