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Coral Reefs Changing Over Time

How do we know what coral reefs looked like hundreds of years ago? Often times, we...

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World Oceans Day 2012 - Live Webcast

On World Oceans Day - June 8th, 2012 - the Living Oceans Foundation hosted a...

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Zooxanthellae and Coral Bleaching

Tiny plant-like organisms called zooxanthellae live in the tissues of many animals,...

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Two Views of Coral Reefs: Thriving and Threatened

Coral reefs are beautiful, vibrant ecosystems that house roughly one quarter of all...

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Staghorn Coral

Staghorn (seen here) and elkhorn corals are listed as Threatened under the U.S....

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Diseased Coral

A photo taken at a reef near Bocas del Toro, Panama. The reef suffered a mass...

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Shallow Coral Reef Foraminifers

In this photo of a shallow coral reef in the Pacific there are three species of...

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Unhealthy Coral Reef, Kiritimi, Line Islands

Algae has overtaken this coral reef off heavily populated Kiritimati, or Christmas...

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What Is Coral? A Coral Polyp and Zooxanthellae

What are corals? Corals themselves are animals. But tropical reef-building corals...

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Coral Reef in Distress

Overfishing and sedimentation have heavily impacted this reef off the western coast...

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Bleached Corals, Pacific Ocean

Compare the healthy coral on the left with the bleached coral on the right....

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Coral Reef Covered by Silt and Sand

This coral reef in the Western Pacific Ocean was killed by human input of silt and...