What happens to sea life when coral reefs die?

They die.

They find themselves suddenly homeless.

And then they die.

This is NO laughing matter!!!

Its very sad…especially when the coral reef is destroyed by humans. Poor creatures.

why is it always the poor?

@Ivan, you took the words right out of my mouth.
What happens in any food-web or ecosystem when a link or food source or habitat or predator is taken out? Things start to fall apart and lots of other creatures die.

Coral reefs are infinitely important. Not only does sea life die, but it causes huge problems on humans as well (which, I truly care less about) because the majority of our oxygen comes from the ocean’s plants.

There was a company that was researching how to re-fertilze ocean forests with iron, but it seems to have gone poorly.

Save our oceans! Death to humans! =p

@Urban: I hear you!