So, gentle suggestions to modify consumer-side transportation behavior isn't working...
"Help preserve these natural barriers by biking, carpooling, or taking public transit to reduce carbon emissions, which raise water temperature to a harmful level."
The world is currently experiencing its second major coral bleaching event in 10 years, with reef systems from Australia to Florida teetering on the brink of disaster following months of record-breaking ocean heat, a US agency announced Monday.
Human-made infrastructures usually end up in the ocean as trash. But, not all of it. Sometimes, ships, planes and otherwise unuseful big chunks of metal structures, are strategically placed in the bottom of the ocean to create artificial reefs.
As it turns out, they offer quite a helpful environment for large predatory fish, and allows for habitat optimization.
SAVE THE WAVES STATEMENT ON THE 2024 OLYMPIC DEVELOPMENT AT TEAHUPO'O
The surf #ecosystem of Teahupo’o must be protected.
#SaveTheWaves stands with the local community members of #Teahupoo and the Vai ara o Teahupo’o Assocation’s position against the #OlympicCommittee ’s proposed aluminum judges tower. Teahupo’o’s fragile surf ecosystem is made up of live #reefs, a #lagoon, and a freshwater stream.
"The researchers outlined guidelines for governments to provide long-distance larval drifters, like #urchins and #lobsters, as well as #MigratorSpecies, like #turtles and #sharks, with protected stopovers along coastal corridors. "
"The turbines’ seabed foundations, bolstered by rock piles around the masts, function as artificial #reefs upon which flora and #crustacea thrive, which then are consumed by #fish, #porpoises, and #seals.
Marine scientists have found that these #RenewableEnergy parks can serve as sprawling #MarineSanctuaries, some of them as vast as 80 square kilometers (31 square miles) in size."
As the coral reefs continue to bleach and otherwise fall apart due to warming and acidifying oceans, more and more scientists are trying to research ways to save them by understanding how they function.
American and Australian scientists using CRISPR-induced gene knockouts have identified a gene in stony coral responsible for growth of the solid coral through bicarbonate transport.
Climate change is an immediate threat to the majority of the world's population.
We need a local, regional, state, national, and international "moon shot" type of concentration of effort using available resources while developing and advancing new science and technologies to counteract the damage humans have caused.
Without this type of all-out, universal cooperation, human civilization, and perhaps humanity itself, are in imminent danger of extinction.
"We are entirely connected with #nature and, in turn, the #reef...Every action, every decision we make has an impact on the #environment around us...if you take positive [actions] to reduce your #carbon#emission, this in turn will have a really positive effect on #reefs around the #world...each of us individually are connected and...if we work together, we can have really large and positive impacts."
Multiple #reefs around the #Florida Keys are now completely bleached or dead in a grim escalation that took place in as little as two weeks, #coral experts told CNN.
Experts now say they expect “complete mortality” of the bleached reefs in just a week, and worry reefs at greater depths could face the same fate if the unprecedented ocean warmth continues to escalate.
A recent review has shown that farming #coral fragments from few species cannot restore #coralreef ecosystems, which is a complex system. We need to #protect these systems in order to avoid their #extinction
Record-Breaking Ocean Heat Triggers 4th Global Coral Bleaching Event (www.sciencealert.com)
The world is currently experiencing its second major coral bleaching event in 10 years, with reef systems from Australia to Florida teetering on the brink of disaster following months of record-breaking ocean heat, a US agency announced Monday.