Offshore Drilling Threatens Deep-Water Coral Reefs

'CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- One of Earth's last frontiers lies off the Carolinas coast, on the cold, black ocean bottom 1,200 feet below the waves.
Scientists are just beginning to...'

read the rest at:

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1461650/offshore_drilling_threatens_deepwater_coral_reefs/index.html