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Nature Inc. Episode: Coral Cashpoint

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By Team Planet Green
Silver Spring, MD, USA | Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:30 AM ET

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Coral reefs supply 500 million of us with food and work—but we are destroying the reefs so quickly, they could vanish entirely in less than a hundred years.

Reefs are so valuable that Dubai is already underway constructing an artificial reef with 32 million tons of natural rock and an estimated worth of more than $30 billion; but what fate lies for the billions of other people dependent on reefs for survival, who don't have billions of dollars to spend on building them artificially?

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