EditorialDivers work to repair hurricane-damaged coral off the coast of Puerto Morelos, Mexico, on Nov. 12, 2020. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times)
EditorialDivers work to repair hurricane-damaged coral off the coast of Puerto Morelos, Mexico, on Nov. 12, 2020. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times)
EditorialDivers work to repair hurricane-damaged coral off the coast of Puerto Morelos, Mexico, on Nov. 12, 2020. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times)
EditorialDivers work to repair hurricane-damaged coral off the coast of Puerto Morelos, Mexico, on Nov. 12, 2020. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times)
EditorialDivers work to repair hurricane-damaged coral off the coast of Puerto Morelos, Mexico, on Nov. 12, 2020. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times)
EditorialMembers of a team calling itself “the Brigade” work to repair hurricane-damaged corals off the coast of Puerto Morelos, Mexico, on Nov. 12, 2020. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times)
EditorialAlaskan reefs, built over centuries by the coralline algae C. nereostratum, are eroding in part because of overgrazing by herbivores like sea urchins. (J. Tomoleoni/U.S. Geological Survey via The New York Times)
EditorialAlaskan reefs, built over centuries by the coralline algae C. nereostratum, are eroding in part because of overgrazing by herbivores like sea urchins. (J. Tomoleoni/U.S. Geological Survey via The New York Times)
EditorialAlaskan reefs, built over centuries by the coralline algae C. nereostratum, are eroding in part because of overgrazing by herbivores like sea urchins. (J. Tomoleoni/U.S. Geological Survey via The New York Times)
EditorialChaetopterus pergamentaceus, Print, Chaetopterus or the parchment worm or parchment tube worm is a genus of marine polychaete worm that lives in a tube it constructs in sediments or attaches to a rocky or coral reef substrate. The common name arises fr...
EditorialChaetopterus pergamentaceus, Print, Chaetopterus or the parchment worm or parchment tube worm is a genus of marine polychaete worm that lives in a tube it constructs in sediments or attaches to a rocky or coral reef substrate. The common name arises fr...
EditorialTaeniura lymma, Print, The bluespotted ribbontail ray (Taeniura lymma) is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae. Found from the intertidal zone to a depth of 30 m (100 ft), this species is common throughout the tropical Indian and western Paci...
EditorialCoral reef araucaria or Cook pine, Araucaria columnaris. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaire's Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe, Ghent, Belgium, 1851.