statistical discovery . From sas. TM CUSTOMER BRIEF the Nature conservancy Protecting precious coral reefs If you call Kenosha, Wisconsin, home, you might not be concerned just yet about coral bleaching. Quite a few folks in Florida are, though, and for good reason. Just off the coast of Florida is the North America’s only shallow-water coral reef, stretching up from the Dry Tortugas to St. Lucie Inlet in Martin County. Coral bleaching, a product of global warming, is increasingly threat- ening the Earth’s coral reefs, one of the most biologically diverse natural systems. Some estimates suggest that more than half the world’s coral reefs could be gone within the next quarter-century. According to The Nature Conservancy, coral reefs provide a home to more than a million

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