Just a year ago, the colors were bright under the waves. Now the Maldivian reef is dead, the coral killed by the pressure of rising ocean temperatures. What is left is gray, a scene repeated in reefs around the world. Coral reefs are areas underwater where small creatures live. The coral is hard material formed on the bottom of the sea by the skeletons of those creatures. Usually brightly colored fishes swim among the coral. The world has lost about half its coral reefs in the last 30 years. Scientists are working to prevent their destruction. The health of the planet depends on it. This isn't something that's going to happen 100 years from now. We're losing them right now, said marine biologist Julia Baum of Canada's University of Victoria. We're losing them really quickly, much more quickly than I think any of us ever could have imagined. Scientists say global warming is causing the rising ocean temperatures.
Title: Scientists Race to Save World's Coral Reefs
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1738/coral_reefs.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Scientists Race to Save World's Coral Reefs' data-article-id='2256'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='6500'>Just a year ago, the colors were bright under the waves.</span> <span data-start-time='6500' data-end-time='17021'>Now the Maldivian reef is dead, the coral killed by the pressure of rising ocean temperatures.</span> <span data-start-time='17021' data-end-time='24896'>What is left is gray, a scene repeated in reefs around the world.</span> <span data-start-time='24896' data-end-time='31458'>Coral reefs are areas underwater where small creatures live.</span> <span data-start-time='31458' data-end-time='41188'>The coral is hard material formed on the bottom of the sea by the skeletons of those creatures.</span> <span data-start-time='41188' data-end-time='47313'>Usually brightly colored fishes swim among the coral.</span> <span data-start-time='47313' data-end-time='54583'>The world has lost about half its coral reefs in the last 30 years.</span> <span data-start-time='54583' data-end-time='60250'>Scientists are working to prevent their destruction.</span> <span data-start-time='60250' data-end-time='64604'>The health of the planet depends on it.</span> <span data-start-time='64604' data-end-time='70917'>This isn't something that's going to happen 100 years from now.</span> <span data-start-time='70917' data-end-time='81396'>We're losing them right now, said marine biologist Julia Baum of Canada's University of Victoria.</span> <span data-start-time='81396' data-end-time='91708'>We're losing them really quickly, much more quickly than I think any of us ever could have imagined.</span> <span data-start-time='91708' data-end-time='99729'>Scientists say global warming is causing the rising ocean temperatures.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1738/coral_reefs.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question 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