coral reef

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The researchers emphasize that restoring coral reef fisheries is not only about protecting ecosystems.

From Science Daily • Jan. 4, 2026

She compares the human body to a coral reef, where animals, plants, and microscopic organisms “cohabitate as one huge and beautiful chimeric metaorganism.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025

A New Zealand warship which crashed into a coral reef before it caught fire and sank had been left on autopilot, an official inquiry has found.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024

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

From NewsForKids.net • Nov. 27, 2024

Old-timers would lean against the corny papier-mache coral reef, sip their drinks, and mutter about the jovenes.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older