Health of coral reef off Yucatan declines after 12 years of improvement
The condition of the world’s second-largest coral system, the Mesoamerican Reef stretching from the Yucatan Peninsula to Central America, has taken a turn for the worse and faces further threats from climate change, according to a report by a group of scientists. Extending nearly 1,000 km / 620 miles from the northern tip of Mexico’s…