coral reef

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The researchers emphasize that restoring coral reef fisheries is not only about protecting ecosystems.

From Science Daily • Jan. 4, 2026

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

The Great Barrier Reef, the world's biggest coral reef system on the north-east coast, is rightly recognised as a Unesco World Heritage Site.

From BBC • Jul. 22, 2025

A coral reef is normally built out of lots of colonies of different kinds.

From NewsForKids.net • Nov. 27, 2024

The shadowed waters conceal a coral reef offshore.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García