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Children are especially at risk.
Most negotiators who participated in The Hague climate conference left on Saturday evening with a profound sense of disappointment. This was the deal that almost was, the occasion where agreement appeared so near on a number of highly charged political issues. There is good reason for profound disappointment, still, there is room for cautious optimism. The structure and extent of coral reefs can now, for the first time, be monitored globally, thanks to new observations from NASA's Landsat 7 spacecraft. Detailed images of reefs from nearly 900 locations around the world have been collected in the first year of the Landsat 7 mission.