"During this viral pandemic now more than ever, I think about the importance of all the medicines we get from coral reefs."
"To get up close and personal with coral reefs and fish."
"Coral reefs support jobs, tourism, and fisheries... each year coral reefs pump more than 3.4 billion dollars into the U.S. economy."
"Corals can't grow back overnight... with more corals disappearing each day, this state of emergency has forced scientists and marine biologists to work on a faster way to repopulate the reef."
"Biden hasn't added any new barriers, but is funding the repair of existing ones."
"A remarkable coral reef discovery off the coast of Tahiti."
"Scientists found deep water coral reefs, but in the same moment as the excitement came the realization that these coral reefs are dying."
"Great Barrier Reef: world's largest coral reef system."
"When you're here every coral I brought up I was like 'hey remember that one coral' and you'd be like 'okay.'"
"What makes corals colorful? Corals effectively synthesize proteins that give them their colors."
"If you put 500 corals into a system like this in many ways the corals themselves are the filtration."
"Half of the world's coral reefs have died in the last 30 years, mostly because of ocean warming."
"Is there enough sunscreen in the environment to harm coral?"
"The world's coral reefs are slowly but surely being destroyed by rising temperatures of oceans and pollution."
"We have to do what we can to save the coral reefs now. Who's with me?"
"Algae grows on reefs, and where you have reefs, you have corals."
"Healthy ecosystems, healthy coral reefs need healthy predators and vice versa."
"Half of all coral reefs have already been lost or severely damaged."
"Coral reefs are extraordinarily sensitive to temperature."
"Colorful coral reefs are being destroyed by fishing, pollution, and global warming. Find out what color coral turns when it dies."
"Anything that you see out there has figured out a way to survive, and so we know that predation is really the major driver of what coral reefs look like."
"Skimmers are commonly believed to help remove the biological toxins that corals release to fight each other for territory."
"Corals are much tougher than we originally thought they were."
"Phosphate is a very important nutrient and we have to figure out how to supply it to the Corals in a way that they can get it."
"Any sort of attention that we can draw onto the coral reef ecosystem helps."
"The Caribbean coral reef aquarium, one of the largest aquatic displays in the world."
"The reefs of Abraão are actually the largest and richest coral reef system in the southern Atlantic."
"At 8.3, the corals are able to calcify faster."
"This is like a fantasy for every coral person."
"The stunning island of Mauritius is home to a diverse array of flora and fauna and spectacular coral reefs."
"The reef is starting to look healthier already."
"Life in the ocean starts on those reefs. Every species that's out there at some point in their life spends time on those reefs."
"The uniformly warm climate of the early period favored the development of reefs."
"If coral reefs go, there will be a domino effect onto so many other ecosystems."
"They don't call coral reefs the rainforests of the ocean for nothing."
"Dive into the crystal clear waters and discover vibrant coral reefs."
"Mexico has the second largest coral reef barrier in the world, second only to the Great Barrier Reef."
"Coral reefs are unique environments where many marine plants and animals find food, homes, and places to breed."
"Restoring a coral reef takes a long time, think at least two decades, and that's if everything goes smoothly."
"Coral reefs are the most beautiful sight, this side of the rainforests and other fantastic ecologies."
"The Bazaruto Archipelago in the Indian Ocean has crystal white sands and unspoiled coral reefs."
"Coral reefs are some of the most diverse ecosystems on earth," Commander Bauer said, "they occupy less than 0.1 percent of the world's ocean surface but provide habitat for at least 25% of all marine species."
"A new initiative in Australia has set out to build the world's first virtual Ark of living corals."
"The vibrant painter's palette of the coral reef is now a blank sheet of calcium, the color of sand, as desolate as the desert."
"They maintain our coral reefs by consuming and removing macroalgae, which would otherwise cover the reef, causing it to become unhealthy and hindering it from growth."
"About 25% of the ocean's fish depend on healthy coral reefs for shelter, to find food, to reproduce, and to rear their young in the many nooks and crannies formed by corals."
"The piece of healthy coral will help make the sick coral better."
"Coral reef ecosystems, known as the rainforests of the sea, are created by colonies of coral that usually grow in warm shallow water and play host to an incredible amount of biodiversity."
"These bleaching events are something we do are worried about and do have to be concerned with as it's dramatically reducing how much viable coral reefs there are in the world."
"So that is actually where the sand comes from, they eat the corals and then poop out like this broken up coral which is the sand that you've seen."
"Coral bleaching occurs because the algae have left, which can also be caused by pollutants."
"Coral reefs are without a shadow of a doubt the most productive and the most diverse parts of the ocean."
"Coral reefs are the medicine cabinets of the planet."
"Did you know that the Maldives has a sea wall stretching over 14 kilometers filled with artificial coral reefs?"
"Coral reefs grow best in warm water, 70 to 85 degrees Fahrenheit, or 21 to 29 degrees Celsius."
"Coral reefs have an unprecedented biodiversity and are sometimes referred to as the rainforests of the oceans."
"There are more than 500 million people in the world that are completely dependent on the coral reef for food and nutrition."
"The estimated value of the services that coral reefs globally provide is about 170 billion per year."
"Coral reefs are so much more than just beautiful."
"I actually study carbon, okay? This is essentially the cycling of carbon on a coral reef."
"We're talking about there's going to be changes to the coral reefs as we know them, with both winners and losers."
"Light is where 90 percent of corals' energy comes from, and getting this right will have a significant return on the time put into it."
"Coral reefs are an important ecosystem... they protect coastal areas from soil erosion and storms and are a crucial source of income for millions of people."
"The diversity of deep-sea reefs is actually similar to the diversity of shallow water reefs, meaning it's really high."
"The corals are gone because of climate change, and when tourists come, they walk on these corals, so they kind of kill them at the same time."
"A coral reef might look like a bunch of rocks or plants, but surprise, it's actually made out of tiny animals called corals."
"Coral reefs worldwide continue to have challenges ranging from warm ocean waters, higher acidity levels, and poor water quality from canals, sounds, bays, and tributaries."
"While coral reefs are found in less than one percent of the ocean floor, they provide homes to as much as 25% of all marine life."
"We've seen a lot of fish on the coral reefs: shark, barracuda, beautiful all kinds of colors."
"These fish love to live inside the coral and around the coral, and use sea anemones as a nice soft bed."