A report released on November 28 by the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) comes to the same conclusion: Human intervention is needed to ensure the persistence of the world’s coral reefs, which are of incalculable value to “human well-being, national economies, and future wonder.”“The coral report is a pragmatic list of tools for helping reefs survive climate,” says Stanford University biologist Stephen Palumbi, who chaired the NAS committee (and who is also a member of the National Geographic Society’s executive committee). “Kind of like what always happens when the panic of a crisis ebbs and you have to get down to solutions.”In 2016 and 2017, the Great Barrier Reef experienced back-to-back “marine heat waves,” periods of elevated sea temperatures that resulted in the death of almost a third of all the reef’s corals.For reasons that still aren’t entirely clear, coral polyps respond to elevated heat by expelling the symbiotic.

This article relates to environmental science because this is such a worldwide issue that by the United States taking a step to bettering the coral reefs conditions they are motivating other countries to make more research on corals. By making more research it leads to faster solution which leads to the coral reefs re-operation. The United States has created multiple research groups that many other countries like Australia has reached out and tried to help for the cause. There’s so much to the whole coral reef topic. There’s so many ways that they are being harmed not just intentionally but also unintentionally. Again, I do think it all comes down to time and the measure that all humans are taking not just a small group. If we really want coral reefs to bounce back from all the harm it has to be with the help of everyone.