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An international team aboutatforfrominofontoupwith scientists has discovered a huge coral reef aboutatforfrominofontoupwith the Amazon River. The team aboutatforfrominofontoupwith the universities aboutatforfrominofontoupwith Georgia aboutatforfrominofontoupwith the USA and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil was aboutatforfrominofontoupwith an expedition to learn more aboutatforfrominofontoupwith Amazon River plumes when it made the discovery. Plumes are the areas close aboutatforfrominofontoupwith where a river meets the sea and the river's freshwater mixes aboutatforfrominofontoupwith the saltwater aboutatforfrominofontoupwith the ocean. The reef system spans an area aboutatforfrominofontoupwith 5,800 square kilometres, stretching aboutatforfrominofontoupwith the coast of French Guiana to the rainforest of the Brazilian state of Maranhao. The finding has surprised marine biologists because reefs are rarely found aboutatforfrominofontoupwith large rivers as the water is usually too muddy and dark, and does not contain enough salt.

The scientists only explored 10 per cent aboutatforfrominofontoupwith the reef. They said there were many sponges, creatures and other marine life that had adapted aboutatforfrominofontoupwith life in the darker waters. They also recorded 73 species aboutatforfrominofontoupwith reef fish, many of them carnivorous. Researcher Dr. Patricia Yager enthused aboutatforfrominofontoupwith what she had seen. She said: "We brought aboutatforfrominofontoupwith the most amazing and colorful animals I have ever seen aboutatforfrominofontoupwith an expedition." Sadly, not all news about the reef is good. The whole area has been earmarked aboutatforfrominofontoupwith oil exploration. Dr Yager warned that: "From ocean acidification and ocean warming to plans aboutatforfrominofontoupwith offshore oil exploration right aboutatforfrominofontoupwith top of these new discoveries, the whole system is aboutatforfrominofontoupwith risk aboutatforfrominofontoupwith human impacts."