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
At the one extreme was Henderson Island, an old coral reef raised above sea level and devoid of stone Other than limestone.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
