Want to Save a Coral Reef? Bring Along Your Crochet Hook--that's the title of an article in today's New York Times on how the Wertheim sisters are recreating an environmental version of the AIDS quilt. So far, their cochet coral reef spans over 3,000 square feet. Check out more photos of their woolly reef here.
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Deep coral biologists like myself are continually looking to shallow reefs for applicable paradigms.
For Darwin's Birthday Weekend, a reposting of my review of David Dobb's Reef Madness:
Here's a video from the Guardian on the current status of the reef:
This is very cool.
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