Coral Reef BLheatCHING: Preventing this Matter
By GEWARESEL T. CARLOS, PhD
Ampayon National High School
In the movie, Finding Nemo, the three characters, Nemo; Marlin; and Dory have lived in coral reefs thanks to their species. However, because of warming and global climate change, their homes could result to Coral Bleaching which can result in their extinction. But scientists have discovered the simplest way to spot heat-stressed corals which may help scientists determine coral species that require protection from warming ocean waters linked to temperature change.
A reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals. Coral reefs are homes of million species. However, thanks to temperature change, heat-stressed corals can cause bleaching, which may wipe out lots of ecosystems.
Recently, researchers have found the simplest way to spot these heat-stressed coral reefs which may help scientists distinguish coral species that require protection from temperature change.
Stopping DIE-SEAses: Protecting Coral Reefs
Coral bleaching from warming waters is an ongoing worldwide ecological disaster. Coral reefs provide not only habitat but also nurseries, and spawning grounds for fish for about 500 million people together with their livings, and coastline protection from storms and erosions. But heating and temperature change caused great damage to coral reefs by increasing ocean waters’ temperatures, resulting to bleaching. In step with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, other threats to coral reefs are increase of water level, more acidic ocean, unsustainable fishing, damage from vessels, invasive species, marine debris and tropical cyclones.
Hawaiian stony corals were studied and published within the journal Science Advances on how they well-versed heat stress, with a goal of identifying chemical (metabolite) indicators on stress. Heat stress can cause loss of algae that lives in symbiosis with corals, leading to bleaching and, potentially, the loss of coral reefs.
Coral diagnosis has been validated by scientists in a very much larger study and also the results appear promising. they’re also developing a “coral hospital” featuring a brand-new lab-on-a-chip device, which could check coral health within the field via metabolite and protein indicators.
Yes, the reef bleaching may result to the extinction of fish species, however, we will prevent this with the assistance of the coral hospital and also the scientists! The simplest thing we are able to do as citizens, is to cut back temperature change and warming through planting trees and avoid burning plastics! If we can’t make these, please stop destroying it! ###
