Almost nothing stood in the way of the pounding waves that crashed into seaside homes in Staten Island’s Tottenville ...

This story appears in the February 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine ... American fishermen purposely built artificial reefs out of interlaced logs. In our own time the materials of ...

This story was created with the support of Tourism Australia. Published in the November 2024 issue of National Geographic Traveller (UK).

Staten Island's new reefs offer some of the same basic storm ... professor of geomorphology and environmental geography at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Back in Tottenville, the ...

Dr John ‘Charlie’ Veron monitors coral reefs on the GBR. Image credit: Great Barrier Reef Legacy The facility was named in honour of the late John Rumney, founder of the Great Barrier Reef Legacy and ...