Sentences with phrase «from pieces of coral»

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Now available in fifteen colors ranging from the classic white to pops of emerald and coral this crib is a statement piece for a nursery.

New research from Pupa Gilbert, a professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, provides evidence that at least one species of coral, Stylophora pistillata, and possibly others, build their hard, calcium carbonate skeletons faster, and in bigger pieces, than previously thought.

Carne and her research team collected broken pieces of elkhorn and staghorn corals — critically endangered and nearly 98 percent wiped out — from the healthy reefs and moved them to eight coral nurseries.

They look like pieces of coral or small clumps of cauliflower and range from the size of a grain of wheat to that of a hazelnut.

However, the local village on Mabul has some small stalls selling simple toiletries, confectionery and a lot of items from the sea like shells, pieces of coral and other things that would be better left in the ocean.

During 2014's «Prospect.3: Notes for Now» — the third iteration of the city - wide contemporary art triennial in New Orleans — the Contemporary Arts Center was filled with a selection of abstract paintings, figurative works, video installations, and fish tanks full of coral — all pieces created by artists from around the world.

Ingeniously and idiosyncratically composed from multiple pieces of wood and sections of canvas that have been lushly dyed in a spectrum of rich colors, the works have the natural feel of an organism, growing and replicating itself like a coral reef or Martian bacterium.

NOTE: I quoted extensively from Coral Davenport's piece at National Journal, because it is just a superb piece of reporting.

But the nature of the debate has been the skeptical side publicizing good summaries of known science like Eschenbach's recent piece here on coral reefs that show the emperor has no clothes, and the only coherent response we get from alarmists is that «Kajillions of scientists disagree so you must be wrong».

So I picked up a couple of rather colorful pieces of faux coral from the local pet store and gave them a spray - painted, white makeover.