The Coral Reefs of the Caribbean Dr. Thomas F. Goreau, who died in 1970 at just 45 years age, was a pioneer coral reef ecologist who began studying the reefs of Jamaica in 1951. A faculty member at the University… Read More »Cumulative Effects, Synergistic Stressors, and the Decline of Coral Reefs
We are suffering a fever. Month after month, this old planet just keeps getting warmer. Not actually hotter month by month – we still have summer and winter. But each month is usually a little bit warmer than it was… Read More »Our Changing Climate and its Economic Impacts
Lots of People Live Along Tropical Coasts We appear to have been always a coastal species. If we define ‘coastal’ as ‘within 100 km of a coastline’, then the coastal strip comprises 21% of all land, but is currently occupied… Read More »Zone Tropical Coastal Oceans; Manage Them More Like Land