The International Coral Reef Initiative has announced Wednesday that the world’s coral bleaching has included 5% of the sea reef in the most intense event in history recorded.
It is the fourth global bleaching event since the 5th, and now 25-5. About two-thirds of the reefs have surpassed the bleaching, the ICRI, hundreds of governments, non-governmental organizations and others have a mixture. And it is not clear that the current crisis, which starts in 2021, will end in the warming ocean.
“We never see heat pressure, which triggles the global event,” said the International Coral Reef Society’s Executive Secretary and Retired Coral Monitoring Chief Mark Eekin of the US National Ocean and A atmospheric Administration.
“We are seeing something that is completely changing the skills of our oceans for the face and life and livelihood of our planet.”
Last year was the hottest year in the world on the record and most of it was moving to the ocean. The average annual sea surface temperature of the sea away from the pole was recorded 20.87 degrees Celsius (69.57 degrees Fahrenheit).
It is deadly to corals, which are the key to protecting marine production, tourism and coastline from erosion and storm. Coral walls are sometimes called “Rain Forests of the sea” because they support high level biodiversity – about 25% of all marine species are found on and around the coral walls.
Get their bright colors from coral colored algae that are inside them and a food source for corals. As a result of prolonged warmth, algae release toxic compounds and the coral reefs them. A completely white skeleton has been left behind, and the weak coral is at risk of dying.
The bleaching event was so intense that the NOA’s Coral Reef Watch program had to add layers to its bleaching alert scale to the account for the rising risk of coral death.
Trying to save and recover the coral. A Dutch Lab has worked with coral pieces, including some from the coast of Sesms so that they can be used to re -establish wild coral walls if needed to promote them in the zoo. Other projects, including a Florida, have worked to rescue the endangered corals with high heat and return them to their health before they return to sea.
However, scientists say that it is necessary to reduce the greenhouse gas emission that warms the planet such as carbon dioxide and methane.
“The best way to protect the coral walls is to solve the root cause of the coral wall, and it means reducing human emissions that are mostly fossil fuel … everything else looks like a band-aid instead of solving,” Ekin said.
“I think people really need to recognize what they really are doing … Kissing for the coral wall,” Melania McField, vice-president of the Coral Reef Monitoring Network of the global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, said the reefs around the world are a network of scientists.
The update of this group arrives when President Donald Trump has come to his second term to increase fossil fuel and roll the clean energy programs, which he says is necessary for economic growth.
“We have got a government right now that we have been working hard to destroy all these ecosystems … removing these protections will result in destructive consequences,” Ekin said.
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