Forty percent of the world's 7.6 billion people live in Coastal cities and towns. A team including Smithsonian marine biologists just released 25 years of data about the health of Caribbean coasts from the Caribbean Coastal Marine Productivity Program (CARICOMP). The PLOS ONE study provides new insights into the influence of both local and global stressors in the basin, and some hope that the observed changes can be reversed by local...

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