It started with a tip from the local First Nation of a "bump on the sea floor" where the fish liked to be and led to the discovery of Canada's only known live coral reef.
Coral reef that ‘shouldn’t exist’ thrives off B.C.’s Pacific Ocean, biologist says
It started with a tip from the local First Nation of a “bump on the sea floor” where the fish liked to be and led to the discovery of Canada’s only known live coral reef.
Today the beauty and peace and pristine nature of Teahupo’o is in danger. It's #France 's turn to host the '24 #Olympics so the logical place to hold the #surfing is at the world's most beautiful wave, here in Teahupo'o.
Because of powerful economic incentives for the local government and numerous local contractors, the project has been rammed through with no ecological impact study.
An assessment was done a dozen years ago by #IFRECOR, a French NGO that works for the preservation of coral reefs.
They warned that any degradation of the reef could have dire consequences. The #disruption of #coral has been known to augment levels of ciguatera, a dangerous #neurotoxin that comes from a micro #algae that grows on dead coral. In addition, the structure of the wave could be altered by a degradation of fault lines in the reef.
Scientists are reporting corals are bleaching white and dying from rising ocean temperatures across a more than 1,000km stretch of the Great Barrier Reef.
Hot seawater killed most of cultivated coral in #Florida Keys in setback for restoration effort
Researchers are finding that record hot seawater killed more than three-quarters of human-cultivated #coral that scientists had placed in the #FloridaKeys in recent years.
Coral reefs off the Florida Keys islands are struggling to recover from last summer's record-breaking heat wave, new data showed Thursday, in another sign of the devastating impacts of human-caused climate change.
Tiffany artwork by Nature. The internal structure of this long fossilized Communal Coral (over 300 million years) is on clear display after being worn down by years of Atlantic waves.
County Clare, Ireland.
Flamingo Tongues (the name of this snail) are fun to photograph and look at, but they are a menace to soft corals, secreting chemicals to dissolve the coral so they can digest it. They often leave a trail of destruction behind them as in this image. The snail is moving upward to devour more polyps.
Coral reef that 'shouldn't exist' thrives off B.C.'s Pacific Ocean, biologist says (lighthouse-eco.co.za)
It started with a tip from the local First Nation of a "bump on the sea floor" where the fish liked to be and led to the discovery of Canada's only known live coral reef.
Bleaching fears along 1,000km stretch of the Great Barrier Reef (lighthouse-eco.co.za)
Scientists are reporting corals are bleaching white and dying from rising ocean temperatures across a more than 1,000km stretch of the Great Barrier Reef.
Florida coral reef still struggling after 2023 heat wave (lighthouse-eco.co.za)
Coral reefs off the Florida Keys islands are struggling to recover from last summer's record-breaking heat wave, new data showed Thursday, in another sign of the devastating impacts of human-caused climate change.
‘Literally off the charts’: global coral reef heat stress monitor forced to add new alerts as temperatures rise (lighthouse-eco.co.za)
Three new levels added by US Coral Reef Watch after ‘extreme’ unprecedented heat, with highest alert warning of ‘near complete mortality’