By Fritz Pinnow 2024 brought the hottest Northern Hemisphere summer ever recorded, only narrowly surpassing the record set in ...

This story appears in the October 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the mangroves off the east coast of Central America, at the edge of the Mesoamerican Reef, the world is divided in ...

Q: Were you scared to be in the path of a 30-foot whale shark? A: Fear is a good thing when working with wild animals. Whale sharks aren’t harmful to people. The worst thing is you might get bum ...

The Mesoamerican Reef (MAR), from the northern tip of the Isla Contoy in Mexico to the Bay Islands of Honduras, hosts at least 11 coastal-pelagic species of rays—including the Caribbean manta, ...

Their grades help scientists, managers and conservationists understand the overall health of the Mesoamerican Reef (MAR), the 1,000 km long barrier reef system extending along the coast of Central ...

Geographic location: Central America(Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico). Shared by the four nations of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras, the Mesoamerican Reef is the largest reef system of ...