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U.S. Coral Reefs
Coral
Reef Area Shaded Blue
There are extensive coral reefs
in the waters of the United States and its territories, covering more than 4
million acres of the sea floor in the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean
Sea, and the Pacific Ocean. More than 60% of the Nation’s coral reefs are
found in the extended Hawaiian Island chain. Most of these are included in the
recently designated Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Reserve, the
largest U.S. nature preserve.
These
include reefs off Florida, Texas, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In
the Pacific Ocean, they include those of the Hawaiian Islands, Wake Island,
Johnston Atoll, the Northern Marianas, Saipan, Guam, Kingman Reef and Palmyra
Atoll, Howland Island, Baker Island, Jarvis Island, and American Samoa.
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New
NOAA Maps Show Big Island Has Most Live Coral of Main Hawaiian
Islands-Click Here
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Bleaching
on the Great Barrier Reef-Click Here
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NASA
Helps Researchers Diagnose Recent Coral Bleaching at Great Barrier
Reef-Click Here
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Acid
Oceans Warning -Click Here
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Major
international study warns global warming is destroying coral reefs-Click
Here
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Call
For Climate Action To Save Coral Reefs-Click
Here
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President
Bush Establishes Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National
Monument-Click here
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Caribbean
Coral Reefs first mass die off of coral in over 3,000 years
images and story click here
credit:
NOAA, NASA, Reef Check, UNEP, Reef Relief, Australian Government
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