Life on the rocks: building a future for coral reefs

Reef futures

What keeps a reef together

Florida

Sulawesi

Bali

Dominican Republic

Washington, D.C.

Australia, from afar.

Part I. Reef futures. Fairy land of fact

Crazy ideas

The issue of scale

Buying excitement

Part II. What keeps a reef together. A badass merger

Hopeful monsters

Tiny architects

Bleaching beginnings

Bleaching bombardment

Unmasking immunity

The holobiont

Throwing shade

Part III. Florida. Fragmentation

Outbreak

Lesion by legion

Part IV. Sulawesi. The tragedy of scale

The scale of tragedy

A place to restore

A reef of hope

A blast in Makassar

Reef stars

Galaxy of potential

Part V. Bali. The coral cloud

The coral farm

A prayer for the sea

Part VI. Dominican Republic. The scale of tourism

Corals on ice

A coral named Romeo

Synchrony of spawn

Coral kindergarten

Category 5

Part VII. Washington D.C.. X-tinguished

The lifeboats

Reef investments

Part VIII. Australia, from afar. Cancellations

Collapse

Flicker

Survival genes

Brightening

The coin toss.