KQED KQED Newsroom August 29, 2015
Coral reefs like these, vibrant and teeming with life, may hold clues to the future of the worlds oceans. Coral reefs only make up a fraction of 1 of the ocean, but they hold 25 of the oceans species. Not only that, but they feed hundreds of millions of people and a billion people or more get some income from coral reefs. So this is an ecosystem that is really fundamental to humans on the planet. Steve polumbi is the director of the hopkins marine station. Hes studied coral reefs around the world. For decades, warming ocean waters have damaged, even killed coral, but now reefs are facing an in...