"It's horrible to imagine that this is happening in many other reefs around the world, it's not just here."
Because the main islands of the Seychelles sit in a shallow basin of water, the reefs are vulnerable to spikes in sea temperature. In 1998, 90% of the coral died.Satellite observations by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show warm water is once again spreading across the Indian Ocean and is predicted to cause coral bleaching in the Seychelles in the coming weeks.Divers are selecting the surviving coral, growing fragments on ropes and then cementing them on the sea bed.
"It should be a moral obligation to make the choices and decisions that are necessary to solve that problem."A quarter of marine life depends on coral reefs. But at the current rate of global warming 99% of shallow water reefs will die this century, according the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.But the Nekton mission will send submersibles down to survey reefs in the deep water around Aldabra, a coral atoll 600 miles southwest of the main Seychelles group.
Pollution and changes in nutrients. Wanton destruction of thousands of square miles of jungle, replacing it with farms, factories and houses, changes water runoff to fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, sewage, chemicals. This changes the seas' ecosystems.
Those research dollars just come rolling in when you resort to alarmism like this. So what happened after the last two bleaching events? Let me guess, they recovered! This is nothing but scientific fraud.
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BULLSHIT !
Fake news!