I’m headed back to Tela, Honduras tomorrow for two back-to-back trips. Bags are packed to the hilt![<- that link to an instagram packing reel I’m probably too proud of] My suitcases are full of loads of scientific gear, including an awesome stereomicroscope that we can use to look for coral babies on […]
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If you would have gone diving in the Caribbean forty years ago, you would have had to try very hard not to see a branching coral known as elkhorn, or Acropora palmata. One of the region’s most abundant species, its colonies formed jungles on the crests of nearly all Caribbean reefs. From the
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Last June, I received a note from the co-administrator of Tela’s Marine Protected Area, Antal Borcsok, saying something horrible was happening to Tela’s reef. “The reef is dying,” he wrote. My heart collapsed because this reef, one so rare and beautiful and poorly understood, had seemed resilient to so much that we’ve
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