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Duwai approached village elders with a proposal to protect part of their fishing grounds, originally a 30-by-40-metre area within the reef.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

But this year's El Nino layers "a terrifying level of additional risk", said Obura, a Kenyan reef expert and chair of IPBES, the UN's expert scientific panel on biodiversity.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

On Tuesday, the crew plans to navigate through a narrow gap "blasted" in the atoll's reef by the British in 1963 - the last time the island was inhabited - to prepare for landing.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Hike from ridge to reef Mason’s Travel tour company leads a guided hike through Mahé’s lush Morne Seychellois National Park to secluded Anse Major beach, followed by snorkeling at Cap Ternay Marine Park.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

And on the reef the whistling buoy bellows like a sad and patient bull.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

"We likely will not be touching corals to each other on reefs," said Collins, noting the sheer size of reefs tends to preclude this option.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

As coral reefs struggle to survive, many sharks are losing their main food source, but humans are to blame for that one.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

Viewers are taken into some of the world's least understood marine environments, ranging from coral reefs and tropical islands to the darkest depths of the ocean.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Locals say dredging for the port already damaged coral reefs, resulting in a decline in marine life and tourist interest at a popular snorkeling site.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Some say that is a land greater than all the Archipelago, and others say it is mere reefs and rocks with ice between.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Currently, less than a tenth of America’s old oil and gas platforms are reefed.

From Economist ● Jun. 12, 2014

Not one platform off California has been reefed.

From Economist ● Jun. 12, 2014

Divers and many fishermen want more to be reefed; shrimpers complain that reefs prevent them from dragging nets across parts of the ocean floor.

From Economist ● Jun. 12, 2014

Under reefed capital sail C. & E. I. bad a good chance to operate at a profit.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was a sailboat with rusty red sails reefed around the booms of the fore and aft masts.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos

Part of that action is Patten’s realization that the sailor’s standard storm tactics—including reefing, heaving-to and lying a-hull—will not work in such an intense blow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025

Four years ago the Golden State passed a law allowing reefing.

From Economist ● Jun. 12, 2014

For now, the evidence suggests that reefing is a rare policy.

From Economist ● Jun. 12, 2014

Farther down the fleet, the crew on Carlo Falcone's 67-year-old Fife-designed yawl Mariella were busy reefing and shaking in tune with the lightning-lit 40-knot squalls, until losing the top of their mizzenmast.

From Time Magazine Archive

Already reefing from the floods, Cahokia never recovered from the earthquake.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann