Campanica | Monitoring Italy's Campania region around Naples

CORAL'S ARCHETYPAL FORKED BRANCHES In the Vesuvius-shadowed outskirts of Naples, the port town of Torre del Greco has preserved its own age-old heritage: a singular artistry with the Mediterranean Sea’s red coral. The smaller harvests “are due to all the restrictions, but the coral is there,” said Gioia De Simone, the sixth-generation owner of a coral dealership. It is “a renewable resource, unlike diamonds.” Italy’s Red Coral Capital Struggles With a Warming Sea | The New York Times