coral reef

In fact, coral reefs generate a constant stream of melodious tunes.

For now, book the three-bedroom villa and explore the island’s hikes and pristine coral reef.

To cool down, Peter, a climate scientist who studied coral reefs, had stood in a stream for an hour, like a man might stand at a morgue waiting to identify a loved one’s body, irritated by his powerlessness, massively depressed.

Cutting trees for fuel leads to deforestation, causing landslides and erosion of fertile land that can run off into the ocean, damaging coral reefs and marine ecosystems.

When a coral reef is healthy, it’s quite noisy with the sound of marine activity, and that noise attracts more activity.

Their purpose lies inherently deeper: providing the building blocks for sustaining a rapidly depleting coral reef environment.

The rainbow of life in a coral reef is founded on the partnership between polyps and algae.

All the islands are low and wooded, and surrounded by a coral reef of small extent.

Once they were beached on a coral reef, and it was all they could do to get the boat off again into deep water.

She was driven on to a coral reef in a bad storm off the coast of Taviuni.

We afterwards found that this coral reef extended quite round the island, and formed a natural breakwater to it.

There are three kinds of coral reef—namely, fringing reefs, barrier reefs, and atolls.