Backbone Quote by Jeff Orlowski

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

— Sheherazade Goldsmith

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

The apparent physical stability of reefs belies an underlying natural turmoil of growth, death and destruction of calcareous organisms. Much like a modern city,…

— Jeremy Jackson

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

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

The Pacific coral reef, as a kind of oasis in a desert, can stand as an object lesson for man who must now learn…

— Eugene Odum

“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

I think that most people would associate big schools of fish with healthy coral reefs. At Kingman, the predators keep the herd thin, so…

— Brian Skerry

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 is a very beautiful and unusual animal. Each coral head consists of thousand of individual polyps. These polyps are continually budding and branching…

— Antony Garrett Lisi

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

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