18th Century Nautical Charts Document Historic Loss of Coral Reefs (IMAGE)

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18th Century Nautical Charts Document Historic Loss of Coral Reefs

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Key West, Fla., then and now. Left: A 1774 nautical chart, with locations of coral indicated. The inset shows an enlarged image of two adjacent historical coral references. Right: The same area represented by Google Earth imagery overlaid on a compiled modern benthic habitat map.

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Credit: Loren McClenachan

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