coral reef

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The film cuts to a hummingbird sipping nectar from a flower on a cactus, a sea turtle floating over a coral reef, pink flamingos on a green lake, a snowflake, a butterfly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

A coral reef is normally built out of lots of colonies of different kinds.

From NewsForKids.net • Nov. 27, 2024

Yet as coral reef ecologist Alexandra Dempsey explored the atolls’ beautiful coral reefs in 2015, she nevertheless found signs of human pollution.

From Salon • Nov. 21, 2024

Researchers in Australia say temperatures in and around the vast coral reef over the past decade are the highest recorded in 400 years.

From BBC • Aug. 7, 2024

At the one extreme was Henderson Island, an old coral reef raised above sea level and devoid of stone Other than limestone.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond