Today I explore one of my coral stones. The fossilized skeletal ruins of a community, a city of tiny clones building ribbons of walls that now gleam like bones bleached in the sun.
I completely lost track of how many days I spent trying to configure #frigate in #homeassistant to get the results I expected. Playing around with a #coral was really fun, and I learned a lot. However, in the end, I decided to go with the #scrypted plugin and #homekit#securevideo. Since I already have HomeKit and the formerly biggest plan for #icloud, I was shocked by how easy it was to integrate. Also, my wife can use it easily, which is a big plus for me. So now that's ticked off the list.
Scientists will unleash an army of crabs to help save Florida’s dying reef.
Vox reports: "The key is in the crabs’ diets: These critters consume enormous quantities of seaweed, also known as macro algae. Algae has been choking reefs throughout the world and especially in Florida."
‘Coral are going to die’: Maui wildfires take toxic toll on marine ecology
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For Florida’s Ailing Corals, No Relief From the Heat
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Coral on the ocean bed in the Straits of Florida near Key Largo, Florida, in September 2021. Record warm ocean temperatures this summer are leading to what scientists fear may be a global bleaching event.Credit: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images.
Scientists now fear a global bleaching event, with Florida leading the way.
Part of a fossilized Crinoid stem and a Solitary Coral side by side. Deposited there by water currents/Sea movement over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.
Florida's coral reef is in danger. Scientists say rescued corals may aid recovery.
USA Today reports: "Some scientists and non-profits say they are optimistic that advances in the ability to grow corals in laboratories and nurseries could help restore the reefs."
As the coral reefs continue to bleach and otherwise fall apart due to warming and acidifying oceans, more and more scientists are trying to research ways to save them by understanding how they function.
American and Australian scientists using CRISPR-induced gene knockouts have identified a gene in stony coral responsible for growth of the solid coral through bicarbonate transport.
Fossilized communal Coral - pieces like this are found all over the Burren, which was the bed of a shallow tropical sea over 300 million years ago. County Clare, Ireland.
Shocking levels of stress
A marine heat wave is devastating #Florida’s corals
'And let me be real clear: This is not just a beautiful place that is important to me. This is a place that is important to our economy, to coastal communities. For fishing, for storm protection, [for] the billions of dollars that are brought in for tourism. This is not just a bunch of #coral scientists being sad that what they’re studying is dying.'
With #ClimateChange ravaging Florida’s beloved reef, people who’ve devoted their careers to restoring #coral in the sea are racing to get it out of the water to tanks on land. They’re pushing through feelings of grief & fear over the future to save what genetic material & young corals they can. But in the background, an existential question looms: How can they restore reefs if the #ocean is getting too hot for coral to live there?
Multiple #reefs around the #Florida Keys are now completely bleached or dead in a grim escalation that took place in as little as two weeks, #coral experts told CNN.
Experts now say they expect “complete mortality” of the bleached reefs in just a week, and worry reefs at greater depths could face the same fate if the unprecedented ocean warmth continues to escalate.
How climate change threatens the hidden diversity of aquatic ecosystems like coral reefs (www.theglobeandmail.com)
Coral reefs are home to a quarter of all life in the ocean and are vulnerable to marine heat waves that are now becoming a major threat to ocean life