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• Life in the Deep Sea: What Survives Under Crushing Pressure
  Below the last glimmer of sunlight lies the largest habitat on Earth — dark, near-freezing, and at pressures that would flatten a submarine. Life did not merely endure the descent; it rewrote its biochemistry to thrive there.
• Coral Reefs: The Animal Cities That Build the Shallow Ocean
  Reefs cover less than one per cent of the seabed and host about a quarter of all marine species — built by a small animal in partnership with a single-celled farmer. Here is the biology of the structure, the arithmetic of bleaching, and why the 2023–2024 event was the largest on record.