David Suzuki Foundation
Art Direction & Graphic Design for the David Suzuki Foundation.
Coral Bleaching
Almost all of the world's corals from the Caribbean, the Great Barrier Reef, and parts of the Pacific have had bleaching events, posing a significant problem for marine life and the world's agriculture. Pollutants caused by Carbon dioxide result in global warming, catalyzing the warming of oceans. Coral bleaching is a visual indicator of thermal stress caused by climate change. Pollution from agricultural runoff and changes in salinity and temperature of seawater increase the vulnerability of these beautiful living creatures. Corals get their colours from tiny algae which live in their tissues. They have a limited temperature range in which they can live, and when temperatures are irregular or hot, the corals stress out and expel the algae, which turns them white or "bleached."