coral reef
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She compares the human body to a coral reef, where animals, plants, and microscopic organisms “cohabitate as one huge and beautiful chimeric metaorganism.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025
Using underwater footage, it will explore the major threats to our oceans, from destructive fishing techniques to mass coral reef bleaching.
From BBC ● May 4, 2025
A coral reef is normally built out of lots of colonies of different kinds.
From NewsForKids.net ● Nov. 27, 2024
Yet as coral reef ecologist Alexandra Dempsey explored the atolls’ beautiful coral reefs in 2015, she nevertheless found signs of human pollution.
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2024
It was so full of minerals that rough, chalky encrustations had built up along the edges, like a coral reef.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
