Viewed from the boat, the mighty elkhorn corals shimmer through the clear water, their tips grazing the surface and seeming ...

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 ...

Tripadvisor just released its 2025 Travellers’ Choice Awards, a list of the best hotels in the world that analyses places with a high volume of above-and-beyond reviews and opinions from their online ...

The 2024 Reef Report Card continues to show coral reef devastation, but the most recent report, which could incentivize action to protect them, offers some hope. According to Mongabay, the latest ...

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, ...

Between January 2023 and April 2025, heat stress impacted 84% of coral reefs worldwide, from the Mesoamerican Reef in the Caribbean to so-called supercorals in the Red Sea, an area previously believed ...

While the damage from pollution and hurricanes is having a devastating effect on the Mesoamerican barrier reef and the hundreds of species which depend on it for food and shelter, eventually it ...

Established to protect and preserve the delicate ecosystems found beneath the waves, the park spans an impressive area along the Mesoamerican Reef, the second-largest barrier reef system in the world.