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Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
Sylvia Earle / Explorer
Age
Gone
Ice
Come
Ages
Coral
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I know Dr. Kennedy and I know Coral Ridge Ministries. I have no connection.
Roy Moore / Jurist
Connection
Coral
Dr
No Connection
Ridge
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I am delighted to see that the issue of coral reefs is receiving the attention it deserves.
Albert Ii, Prince Of Monaco /
Attention
Delighted
Receiving
Coral
Deserves
Issue
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It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense.
Jon Secada / Singer-Songwriter
Beauty
Wedding
Cuban
Intense
Miami
Pretty
Coral
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The coral reef at Bonaire, one of the alphabet islands in the Caribbean, is so alive and healthy.
Ashlan Gorse Cousteau /
Alive
Alphabet
Caribbean
Healthy
Islands
Coral
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I'm obsessed with great white sharks. And I want to dive into the coral of the Great Barrier Reef.
Sara Sampaio / Model
Obsessed
Sharks
White
Barrier
Coral
Dive
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The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.
Alfred Doblin / Novelist
Home
Men
Cities
Colony
Principal
Being
Seat
Collective
Coral
Human
Group
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Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.
Janine Benyus / Science Writer
Block
Co2
Organisms
Poison
Shells
Building Block
Coral
Plants
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Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.
Saadi / Poet
Animal
Biodiversity
Coastal
Desert
Mountain
Plant
Rich
Area
Mountains
Coral
Overall
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I have touched coral, and it feels hard like a rock, with a little slimy thing on top of it. But it is better to not touch coral, to prevent damaging it.
Enric Sala /
Feels
Touch
Coral
Damaging
Rock
Prevent
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That includes not cutting down the rain forest, and stop polluting the ocean because once we kill the coral reefs and the rain forest, this earth is toast.
Michael Berryman / Actor
Ocean
Cutting
Earth
Rain
Coral
Down
Forest
Polluting
Toast
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Hawaii feels so passionately about climate. You know, our oceans are warming. As a result, we have more ocean acidification and coral bleaching. You can actually see it.
Brian Schatz /
Ocean
Feels
Hawaii
Actually
Coral
Passionately
Result
See
Warming
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I think that most people would associate big schools of fish with healthy coral reefs. At Kingman, the predators keep the herd thin, so there aren't a lot of big fish schools.
Brian Skerry /
Big Fish
Healthy
Lot
Associate
Fish
Coral
Herd
Predators
Schools
Thin
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Managing forests, rivers, grasslands, and coral reefs in sustainable ways makes them more resilient and increases their ability to absorb greenhouse gases, which is good for business.
Johan Rockstrom /
Business
Ability
Forests
Greenhouse Gases
Resilient
Rivers
Absorb
Coral
Sustainable
Gases
Greenhouse
Increases
Makes
Ways
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Typhoon damage happens when they hit land, and as humans, we've decided to destroy mangroves and hurt coral reefs. If we don't have barriers, the devastation is worse, and that is scary.
Ashlan Gorse Cousteau /
Barriers
Damage
Decided
Devastation
Humans
Hurt
Scary
Hit
Coral
Destroy
Worse
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Coral reefs represent some of the world's most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of the sea's most exquisite species will not survive.
Sheherazade Goldsmith / Environmentalist
Beauty
Exquisite
Foundation
Marine
Sea
Species
Spectacular
Spots
World
Most
Life World Will
Will
Beauty Life World
Also
Them
Coral
Represent
Without
Many
Some
Survive
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Coral is a very beautiful and unusual animal. Each coral head consists of thousand of individual polyps. These polyps are continually budding and branching into genetically identical neighbors.
Antony Garrett Lisi / Physicist
Animal
Beautiful
Identical
Individual
Thousand
Unusual
Budding
Consists
Coral
Each
Genetically
Head
Neighbors
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I was interested in variations in temperatures of the oceans over the past millennium. But there are no records of these changes so I had to find proxy measures: coral growth, ice cores and tree rings.
Michael E. Mann / Author
Ocean
Growth
Ice
Millennium
Past
Records
Rings
Tree
Interested
Coral
Over
Measures
Oceans
Temperatures
Variations
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Practically the whole world depends on coral reefs, so if the coral reefs get all killed, then the ocean will start going out of whack, and if the ocean goes out of whack, something might happen on land.
Alexander Gould / Actor
Ocean
Depends
Land
Might
Whole
Coral
Goes
Happen
Practically
Start
Whack
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For where Kingman is located, the coral cover is unique in the world. I refer to it as a universe of hard corals. You are not going to find soft corals like in the western Pacific - places like Indonesia, Palau, or Fiji.
Brian Skerry /
Fiji
Indonesia
Pacific
Unique
Western
Coral
Cover
Located
Places
Refer
Soft
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To this day, people are still talking about the Coral Casino's parties of the '30s, '40s, '50s - complete with antidotes of Errol Flynn's swan dives, Marlon Brando's secret cigar smoking spots, and Ester Williams' Aquacades.
Ty Warner /
Brando
Secret
Smoking
Spots
Talking
Casino
Complete
Coral
Still
Parties
Swan
Williams
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For a photographer, sharks are a stirring subject, possessing a perfect blend of grace and power. They have been sculpted by evolution and are ideally suited for whichever ecosystem they inhabit, from coral reefs to the open ocean.
Brian Skerry /
Ocean
Evolution
Grace
Perfect
Photographer
Possessing
Sharks
Stirring
Been
Blend
Open
Coral
Ecosystem
Ideally
Inhabit
Subject
Suited
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The coral that grows at the edge of the reef is always the strongest and most colourful because it faces the greatest battering. It's the same if you're called Honeysuckle. I'd have had a totally different life if I'd been called Mary.
Honeysuckle Weeks / Actress
Different
Different Life
Faces
Mary
Strongest
Most
Because
Totally
Had
Greatest
Been
Same
Coral
Edge
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The Bahamas has mangrove nurseries, coral reefs, shallow sea grass beds, and deep oceanic trenches - all perfect ecosystems for sharks. Photographing multiple shark species in exquisite water was the assignment I had dreamed about from the start.
Brian Skerry /
Bahamas
Ecosystems
Exquisite
Grass
Multiple
Perfect
Sea
Shallow
Species
Trenches
Water
Had
Assignment
Beds
Coral
Deep
Dreamed
Photographing
Shark
Start
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As the oceans get hotter, corals also become heat-stressed and expel the algae that live on their skeletons, resulting in coral bleaching events that can wipe out entire reefs. This destroys the habitat that supports a quarter of all marine life.
Barry Gardiner /
Events
Habitat
Hotter
Marine
Skeletons
Wipe
Get
Also
Destroys
Coral
Entire
Expel
Oceans
Quarter
Resulting
Supports
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I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. It's just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions.
David Attenborough / Broadcaster
Coral Reefs
Dimensions
First Time
Firsts
Minutes
Moments
Moving
Scuba
Single
Three
Unbelievable
Unforgettable
Most
First
Coral
Fact
Gear
Put
Mention
Move
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If I didn't travel so much, maybe my perfect Sunday would be skin diving on a coral reef - not scuba diving, as skin diving is more physical, and I prefer the lightness of it. Skin diving means wearing just goggles. Oh, I could wear some trunks, maybe.
Morten Harket /
Travel
Diving
Lightness
Perfect
Scuba
Sunday
Much
Skin
Prefer
Oh
Coral
Could
Wear
Maybe
Physical
Some
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I'm really into the Tom Ford lipsticks. I was always afraid to wear lip color because I thought it made me look too masculine, but my makeup artist Fiona Stiles got me into wearing coral, orange-y colors from his line, and now I wear lipstick all of the time.
Nikki Reed / Film Actress
Artist
Color
Lipstick
Made
Makeup
Masculine
Time Always Me
Now
Afraid
Coral
Ford
Look
Got
Wear
His
Line
Tom
Tom Ford
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Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world. And there's no question that it is a factor, but it's preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.
Sylvia Earle / Explorer
Health
Coral Reefs
Crash
Critical
Degradation
Experts
Global Warming
Loss
Resilience
Temperature
Tipping
Around
Causing
Coral
Factor
Look
Global
Increased
No Question
Point
Some
Question
Warming
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The Marine Aquarium Council really wants us to keep the coral and the fish safe. They are not saying it is bad to have an aquarium in your house, just that you should make sure when you buy fish for your aquarium... they have been Marine Aquarium Council-certified.
Alexander Gould / Actor
Council
House
Marine
Safe
Should
Sure
Bad
Been
Fish
Buy
Coral
Saying
Wants
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As an explorer, I know firsthand there are many places in the ocean so full of life that they should be protected. Coral reefs and mangrove coastlines are stressed already by climate change and ocean acidification, and poor planning will just make their plight worse.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr. /
Ocean
Climate
Climate Change
Planning
Plight
Poor
Protected
Should
Stressed
Life Change Will
Full
Coral
Explorer
Firsthand
Places
Worse
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What we have seen of recent American action in the Pacific, the bombing of Tokyo and the engagements in the Coral Sea, off Midway Island and at Dutch Harbour, has been sufficient indication that America is beginning to discharge her supremely important duty in the Pacific.
Chiang Kai-Shek / Former President Of The Republic Of China
Action
America
Bombing
Discharge
Dutch
Harbour
Important
Indication
Midway
Pacific
Sea
Sufficient
Tokyo
Been
Seen
Coral
Engagements
Island
Off
Her
Recent
Supremely
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The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!
Daniel Dennett / Philosopher
Home
Brain
Hunk
Juvenile
Nervous
Nervous System
Rocks
Sea
Suitable
Anymore
Make
Through
Cling
Coral
Eats
Finds
Spot
Rock
Root
Rudimentary
System
Task
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We cannot afford to continue losing our coral reefs, which are suffering from a number of threats such as warmer temperatures, more acidic waters, and disease, and that is why Hawaii has become a leader in taking steps to mitigate the harmful impacts of sunscreen on our marine environment.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Disease
Environment
Hawaii
Leader
Losing
Marine
Steps
Suffering
Sunscreen
Why
Afford
Cannot
Continue
Coral
Number
Harmful
Impacts
Mitigate
Taking
Temperatures
Threats
Warmer
Waters
We Cannot
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Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon dioxide emissions from human activity affect the ocean, changing the pH balance of the waters in a phenomenon known as ocean acidification.
Ted Danson / Actor
Ocean
Activity
Balance
Barren
Bottom
Carbon
Carbon Dioxide
Destroyed
Emissions
Human Activity
Instant
Phenomenon
Affect
Coral
Human
Gardens
Global
Habitats
Nets
Plains
Waters
Weighted
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Ocean acidification is often referred to as osteoporosis of the oceans because as acidity rises, shell building creatures such as lobster, oyster, crab, shrimp, and coral are unable to extract the calcium carbonate from the water that they need to build their shells and are thus unable to survive.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr. /
Ocean
Creatures
Lobster
Osteoporosis
Shrimp
Water
Build
Because
Coral
Crab
Often
Extract
Oyster
Referred
Rises
Shell
Survive
Thus
To Survive
Unable
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I can recall, as a young adult, running through the rain forest at the Forest Reserve, at times feeling a sense of fear when I felt I was in danger. In danger of confronting an ugly snake or a coral snake, which represented the greatest fear of someone in a rural area when you traverse the forest.
Anthony Carmona /
Running
Confronting
Danger
Rain
Traverse
Ugly
Young
Adult
Greatest
Area
Through
Coral
Times
Feeling
Forest
Recall
Reserve
Rural
Sense
Snake
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When my younger son was 13 years old, he asked me to read 'Swallows and Amazons' to him while he made models. He liked it so much that I ended up reading all thirteen of Ransome's books, including the ones that I missed out on. This led my son to 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe' and 'Coral Island.'
Michelle Magorian / Author
Including
Made
Models
Son
Thirteen
Treasure
Years
Younger
Asked
Books
Coral
Read
Old
Liked
Ended
Island
Him
Led
Missed
Robinson
Swallows
While
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Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils are eroding, our water tables falling, our fisheries are being depleted, our remaining rainforests shrinking. Something is very, very wrong with our eco-system.
Richard Lamm / Former Governor Of Colorado
Environmental
Caps
Dramatic
Dying
Fall
Glaciers
Ice
Melting
Pressure
Shrinking
Tables
Water
Very
Being
Coral
Depleted
Wrong
Falling
Receding
Remaining
Something
Warming
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Gonpo Tso was born a princess. As a young woman, she dressed in fur-trimmed robes with fat ropes of coral beads strung around her neck. She lived in an adobe castle on the edge of the Tibetan plateau with a reception room large enough to accommodate the thousand Buddhist monks who once paid tribute to her father.
Barbara Demick / Journalist
Accommodate
Beads
Born
Buddhist
Enough
Father
Paid
Princess
Reception
Thousand
Tibetan
Tribute
Young
Once
Fat
Around
Lived
Neck
Castle
Woman
Coral
Dressed
Edge
Her
Large
Monks
Room
Plateau
She
Strung
Young Woman
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Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.
Sylvia Earle / Explorer
Environmental
Antarctica
Big Fish
Blue
Half
Lakes
Middle
Oysters
Percent
Ten
Whales
Things
Lot
Big
Pretty
Around
Bay
Belt
Fish
Coral
Still
Few
Good Shape
Planet
Pretty Good
Some
Remain
Shape
Turn
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The more we heat up the planet, the more it costs all of us, not just in money, but in colossal famines, displacements, deaths, and species extinctions, as well as in the loss of some of the things that make this planet a blue-green jewel, including its specialized habitats from the melting Arctic to bleaching coral reefs.
Rebecca Solnit / Writer
Arctic
Colossal
Heat
Including
Loss
Melting
Coral
Costs
Deaths
Habitats
Jewel
Well
Planet
Some
Specialized
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There was a summer during which the whole South Shore of Oahu, you could see the bleached coral almost across all of the surfing spots. And so it's gone from an issue that only environmentalists cared about to an issue that almost everybody in the state of Hawaii cares about, because it's really affecting our quality of life.
Brian Schatz /
Quality
Hawaii
Quality Of Life
Shore
Spots
Summer
Surfing
Whole
Across
Affecting
Almost
Cared
Cares
Coral
Environmentalists
Issue
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I have no problem with the adventure travel movement. It makes better, more sensitive people. If you get people diving on a coral reef, they're going to become more respectful of the outdoors and more concerned with the threats that places like that face and they're going to care more about protecting them than they would have before.
Tim Cahill / Soccer Player
Travel
Adventure
Care
Concerned
Diving
Movement
No Problem
People
Problem
Respectful
Sensitive
Face Better People
Face
Before
Coral
Makes
Outdoors
Places
Protecting
Threats
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