Climate crisis puts half of reefs at risk by 2035 (Adopt- a- topic: coral reefs)
Prior studies have indicated the projected dire effects of climate change on coral reefs by mid-century; by analyzing a multitude of projected disturbances, their study reveals a much more severe prognosis for the world’s coral reefs as they have significantly less time to adapt while highlighting the urgent need to tackle available solutions to human disturbances.
This is a huge step for coral reefs fighting climate change. A professor and a PhD student created a way to increase coral growth using micro-fragmentation to grow coral 20 times faster than they would grow in nature. They also created a program that’s goal is to plant one million corals. I think that this gives hope for almost regenerating coral reefs but there is still the issue of solving global warming and ocean acidification.
2 thoughts on “Climate crisis puts half of reefs at risk by 2035 (Adopt- a- topic: coral reefs)”
If we could find some way to help out this coral reefs, that would be amazing. What do you think, is there any risk to bringing some of these solutions created in the lab to the wild? Could there be unintended consequences? Or considering the trend in reefs should we be doing anythinng we can to help them out, knowing their importance?
Glad you got these handled. I hope this topic leaves you feeling extra informed. You will continue to see it in the news all the time. Thanks for your good reporting on this.
I think it is very interesting that people have found ways to increase coral growth, and I’m wondering why this has not been more of a widely covered subject in the news, as I feel like every day there is a new article about how the worlds coral reefs are being destroyed. Is it very expensive? Does it have other external costs on the environment?
If we could find some way to help out this coral reefs, that would be amazing. What do you think, is there any risk to bringing some of these solutions created in the lab to the wild? Could there be unintended consequences? Or considering the trend in reefs should we be doing anythinng we can to help them out, knowing their importance?
Glad you got these handled. I hope this topic leaves you feeling extra informed. You will continue to see it in the news all the time. Thanks for your good reporting on this.
I think it is very interesting that people have found ways to increase coral growth, and I’m wondering why this has not been more of a widely covered subject in the news, as I feel like every day there is a new article about how the worlds coral reefs are being destroyed. Is it very expensive? Does it have other external costs on the environment?