Cause and effect Quote by Ed Yong

Coral reefs are under assault. They are rapidly being degraded by human activities. They are over-fished, bombed and poisoned. They are smothered by sediment,…

— Klaus Topfer

“No, the algae were making something that killed the corals via their own microbes. That something turned out to be dissolved organic carbon (DOC);…

— Ed Yong

As the oceans get hotter, corals also become heat-stressed and expel the algae that live on their skeletons, resulting in coral bleaching events that…

— Barry Gardiner

Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the fish are…

— Enric Sala

“Venter concluded from a two-year study of marine microbes that for every 200 miles of ocean, 85 percent of the species, judged by unique…

— Anne E. Maczulak

There was a summer during which the whole South Shore of Oahu, you could see the bleached coral almost across all of the surfing…

— Brian Schatz

Since I began exploring the ocean in the 1950s, 90 percent of the big fish have been stripped away. Tuna, sharks, swordfish, cod, halibut,…

— Sylvia Earle

It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a quarter of…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

Coral reefs are the backbone for the entire ocean. They are the nursery for the ocean. About a quarter of all marine life in…

— Jeff Orlowski

Coral reefs, the rain forest of the ocean, are home for one-third of the species of the sea. Coral reefs are under stress for…

— James Hansen

Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.

— Sylvia Earle

The really valuable thing about documenting coral bleaching is that it is this straight, very direct visual indicator of how hot the oceans are…

— Jeff Orlowski