This gorgeously soft coral was shot in Papua New Guinea, part of a vast region known as the Coral Triangle, which encompasses the waters of Indonesia and the Philippines and extends as far as the Solomon Islands.

This area is home to approximately 40 percent of the world's reef wildlife population, including more than 75 percent of coral species and some 3,000 individual species of fish, as well as sea turtles, mollusks, crustaceans, and marine mammals.

Unfortunately for coral reefs (and for us), they face a serious risk from climate change; experts estimate that as much as Michele Hall