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A Frontiers study reports the first confirmed visual evidence of a living mesophotic coral garden on the Benin continental shelf. Researchers surveyed the Gulf of Guinea shelf in 2025, revisiting a site that 1960s work had logged as a coral barrier but presumed dead. Their cameras instead recorded living corals at 54 meters on rocky…
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Frequently refreshed NOAA buoy observations for offshore water temperature, significant wave height, wave period, and wind across seven representative stations.
Daily NOAA global sea surface temperature and anomaly maps, with visible source timestamps and a clear guide to reading satellite ocean data.
Built across the Sabine River, Toledo Bend Reservoir spreads across 181,600 acres at its conservation pool. That is about 284 square miles, making it the largest reservoir in or shared with Texas when size means surface area at the normal conservation level. The answer comes with one important boundary: Toledo Bend lies on the Texas-Louisiana…
