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With its arms fanned wide open, the solitary creature sits regally on the Pacific Ocean floor, some 450m deep.

While humans can survive large temperature fluctuations, such species as corals are only comfortable within a 12-degree temperature range. And rising global temperatures appear to be threatening their survival, according to Drew Harvell, Cornell professor of ecology and evolutionary biology.

Rosa Alcalá is a poet and translator whose work has received support from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room, and the NEA. Her book Spit Temple: The Selected Performances of Cecilia Vicuña was runner-up for the PEN Translation Award. Her fourth poetry collection, YOU, is forthcoming from Coffee House Press.

“It’s a way for us to authentically talk about ocean health within our mission and within our site.”

An enterprising father and son in Dresden, Germany, Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, found success in the 19th century by hand-blowing glass models of mar