There are coastal parks, blue roofs (which collect rainwater, then release it gradually), floating islands accessible by underwater subways and trams, and a reef made from discarded glass from Staten Island.
Coral Science, an organization devoted to making coral reef research accessible, also provides a good feature on stomatopod biology (www.coralscience.org/main/articles/reef-species-4/stomatopods).
Some nations, including the Maldives and the Marshall Islands, are comprised entirely on natural islands made from coral reefs.
That makes the reefs a valuable point of comparison for managers trying to restore damaged reefs elsewhere.
On the small scale, Dr. Roth said, managers can try to mitigate the impacts of climate change by making sure that reefs are protected from pollution and fishing.
"It was done to cause us problems," he says, dismissing the Gibraltarian view that the reef – made from concrete blocks – is designed to help replenish fish stocks.
Protecting reefs from human activities makes them more resilient to bleaching and naturally occurring disruptions such as typhoons and will buy time "while we come to grips with the (world's) carbon dioxide addiction," said Stephen Palumbi, a marine biologist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
The artist, printmaker, and paper-cutting master's new show with contemporary Kathleen Trenchard, entitled Biotica and Follies, is coming to 108 Contemporary art gallery in Tulsa, Oklahoma on October 2. Wagner's delicately-constructed sculptures look like coral reefs from alternate dimensions made of paper.
I had some incredible experiences – from seeing the Great Barrier Reef, to making friends with people from all over the world".
Spearfishing particularly targets parrotfish, so one strategy might be to buy back spearfishing gear from Kenyan fishermen to protect parrotfish and make a reef more resilient to climate change, while leaving fishermen with other means to fish.
