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377 examples of Coral in a sentence

And this is why I use the analogy to coral.
It's like scuba diving into a coral reef, except you're going upward instead of downward.
You may have seen some of this before, but we're behind a coral reef, and there's this rock out there, a lot of sand, fishes swimming around ...
An octopus on a coral reef has a tough job in front it to go to so many places, remember and find its den.
This coral reef overlaps with that international fishing route, intersects with this fish hatchery.
The Seychelles is protecting its coral reefs, it's replenishing its fisheries, it's improving its resilience to climate change.
It would allow vast tracks of the world's coral reefs to replenish and give safe harbor to countless species.
I'm haunted by the thought of what Ray Anderson calls "tomorrow's child," asking why we didn't do something on our watch to save sharks and bluefin tuna and squids and coral reefs and the living ocean while there still was time.
That's bad news for coral reefs and oxygen-producing plankton.
Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet.
I had to focus all my energies towards going to find new species of things down on deep coral reefs.
When you think of a coral reef, this is what most people think of: these big, hard, elaborate corals, lots of bright, colorful fishes and things.
If you look at this diagram of a coral reef, we know a lot about that part up near the top.
Parrotfish live on coral reefs all over the world, there are 100 species, they can grow well over a meter long and weigh over 20 kilograms, but that's the boring stuff.
First, they have a mouth like a parrot's beak, which is strong enough to bite coral, although mostly they're after algae.
A single parrotfish can produce over 380 kilograms of this pulverized coral each year.
Mottled and striped, teal, magenta, yellow, orange, polka-dotted, parrotfish are a big part of what makes coral reefs so colorful.
And then, there's my love for their home, the coral reef, which was once as vibrant as Caribbean cultures, as colorful as the architecture, and as bustling as carnival.
Because of climate change, on top of overfishing and pollution, coral reefs may be gone within 30 years.
Meanwhile, 90 percent of the large fish, and 80 percent of the coral on Caribbean reefs, is already gone.
Because I don't know how to give an honest talk about my beloved parrotfish and coral reefs that has a happy ending.
I was mesmerized by the coral reefs I explored, and certain I knew how to protect them, because science provided all the answers: close areas of the reef permanently.
I approached elders here in the village of Andavadoaka and recommended that they close off the healthiest and most diverse coral reefs to all forms of fishing to form a refuge to help stocks recover because, as the science tells us, after five or so years, fish populations inside those refuges would be much bigger, replenishing the fished areas outside, making everybody better off.
They outlawed fishing with poison and mosquito nets and set aside permanent refuges around threatened coral reefs and mangroves, including, to my astonishment, those same sights that I'd flagged just two years earlier when my evangelism for marine protection was so roundly rejected.
We're crocheting a coral reef.
My sister and I started this project in 2005 because in that year, at least in the science press, there was a lot of talk about global warming, and the effect that global warming was having on coral reefs.
A great deal of this has been happening in the Great Barrier Reef, particularly in coral reefs all over the world.
And they said they were having an exhibition about artists' response to global warming, and they'd like our coral reef to be part of it.
Why not chisel a coral reef out of marble?
But it turns out there is a very good reason why we are crocheting it because many organisms in coral reefs have a very particular kind of structure.
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