Block Quote by Janine Benyus

Organisms dont think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.

— Janine Benyus

There's a huge challenge around coral bleaching specifically, because when most people think about coral, they think about the beautiful, white sculpture sitting on…

— Jeff Orlowski

“All organisms can make the most basic distinctions--between food and not-food, danger and safety, light and dark, same-species and not-same. But only people can…

— Scott Huler

Managing forests, rivers, grasslands, and coral reefs in sustainable ways makes them more resilient and increases their ability to absorb greenhouse gases, which is…

— Johan Rockstrom

Typhoon damage happens when they hit land, and as humans, we've decided to destroy mangroves and hurt coral reefs. If we don't have barriers,…

— Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

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

Think about this: If water is the blood of our planet flowing through veinous rivers, streams, and into our oceans, what does that make…

— Ian Somerhalder

“Gradually the mist had lifted, and the sun burst forth, a ball of fire radiating the sky with unnaturally incandescent hues. Coral was reminded…

— Hannah Fielding

“Captain James Cook's ship, The Endeavour, hit a coral outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef in 1770. Cook and his crew camped in what…

— Julie Murphy

“You are different." She lifted a hand to delicately trace his hairline. He closed his eyes, feeling her fingers tremble against his skin. "For…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

The coral that grows at the edge of the reef is always the strongest and most colourful because it faces the greatest battering. It's…

— Honeysuckle Weeks

The more we heat up the planet, the more it costs all of us, not just in money, but in colossal famines, displacements, deaths,…

— Rebecca Solnit

When my younger son was 13 years old, he asked me to read 'Swallows and Amazons' to him while he made models. He liked…

— Michelle Magorian

Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon…

— Ted Danson

Coral reefs represent some of the worlds most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of…

— Sheherazade Goldsmith