A coral reef may build up to the surface of the tropical ocean.
Photo Gallery: Marine Marvels a freckle - face blenny peeks from its reef burrow in the Solomon Islands.
So stressed middle-sized fish make for both happy coral and happy predators—in short, a healthy and highly productive reef.
In the radio drama "Nau em Taim" (" Now is the time "in Pidgin) aired in Papua New Guinea, a widowed father takes up dynamite fishing-profitable but disastrous for the reef.
Look,that ship is hanging up on a coral reef
One wrong move and the reef could unravel in a day.
On a coral reef in the Bonin Islands, an abandoned wormhole is home to a hermit crab.
A quarter of all sea species spend at least a part of their life in a reef-and many reefs are in cold or temperate waters.
The Aussies are justifiably proud of the largest coral reef on earth - the Great Barrier reef.
They're eating so much that they're pushing out native reef species.
A diver swims among tropical fish in a Horseshoe Bay coral reef in Indonesia'sKomodo National Park, another of the seven natural wonders on the new list.
While there, we walked through the Daintree Rainforest with an aboriginal guide, toured a wildlife preserve where I cuddled a koala named Chelsea, and snorkeled around the magnificent reef.
This beach is also protected by a reef, so the waters are calm and tranquil; they are relatively shallow.
Unlike its mobile Cousins that forage the reef for food, this crab stays put and fishes for floating plankton with its feathery antennae.
The effect was most pronounced in winter, when there's less sunlight available to fuel reef growth.
"Really this live reef food fish trade, which transports these fish to Hong Kong by sea and air, it really has been like a vacuum cleaner going through the reefs of the Asia Pacific," he said.
Rising ocean temperatures, water pollution, ocean acidification and cyclones continually pummel the reef and have caused mass coral bleaching.
Home to 400 coral species, the Great Barrier reef is a Mosaic of approximately 2, 900 offshore and inshore reefs.
When the regime could no longer refute the evidence, they finally approved rehabilitating the coral reef and making it into a Marine refuge.
the multifarious life-forms that can be found in a coral reef
Beyond the coral reef the open sea was dark blue.
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