I returned to a coral reef behind Johnny’s Cay in the Bahamas a few years ago. I brought my children along this time, eager to introduce them to the astonishing beauty of reef life. While I had read about the decline of the world’s reefs, I was not prepared for the stark difference I would witness in the reef.
What once had been a fantastical seascape looked like an underwater desert. Yellow staghorn coral no longer stretched to the...
