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.
Steamy rainforests and fragile coral reefs beckon, but so does his desk top.
But in this case, we found that people do have the capacity to manage these ecosystems sustainably - to use coral reefs but not overuse them.
The 2-millimeter-tall polyp, which forms vast coral reefs in the Caribbean Sea, holes up in its Marine fortress and waits for the moon to shift from its usual blue hue to a redder glow.
It is a heavenly place, surrounded by a coral reef, explored for tourist purposes.
When the regime could no longer refute the evidence, they finally approved rehabilitating the coral reef and making it into a Marine refuge.
The sea surrounding Komodo provides some of the world's best diving, thanks to its spectacular fish and coral reefs.
The Aussies are justifiably proud of the largest coral reef on earth - the Great Barrier reef.
On a coral reef in the Bonin Islands, an abandoned wormhole is home to a hermit crab.
The powerful Kuroshio shoots warm water northward, allowing coral reefs to thrive where they would not normally be found.
A partly bleached coral reef is blindingly white next to healthy coral.
One consequence for coral reefs is that the symbiosis between the corals and algae that constitute a living reef is breaking down.
And we need them — they are keystone species for everything from building coral reefs to anchoring the ocean food chain to making a killer linguine and clam sauce.
He studies giant barrel sponges growing on coral reefs in the Caribbean.
With its very large black spot, this speckled coral reef dweller looks like it has a bullseye tattoo.
A coral reef consists of coral polyps, which are animals in the jellyfish family, along with algae called zooxanthellae.
The species are found in some of the world's most famous coral reefs, from the Great Barrier reef to the waters surrounding the Chagos Archipelago.
This colorful diversity of life — like swimming through a tropical aquarium — is all thanks to the shallow coral reefs that exist west of Key West.
So what about deforestation, the decline of coral reefs, the loss of fresh water, the rise of global diseases, pollution and all that poverty the UN feared?
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