How super corals could help save our reefs
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2024
- Coral reefs are magic underwater worlds that support 25 percent of all marine life. But climate change is threatening to wipe them out. Now scientists and conservationists around the world are racing to toughen coral reefs up. Is that enough to save these vital ecosystems?
We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world - and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.
#PlanetA #CoralReefs #CoralBleaching
Reporter: Adam Levy
Camera: Marco Borowski
Video Editor: David Jacobi, Adam Levy
Supervising Editor: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann, Joanna Gottschalk
Read more:
These corals could survive climate change - and help save the world's reefs:
www.nature.com/articles/d4158...
A Decision Framework for Interventions to Increase the Persistence and Resilience of Coral Reefs:
www.nap.edu/catalog/25424/a-d...
IPCC Special Report: Global Warming of 1.5 ºC:
www.ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter/spm/
Special thanks for background interview:
Steve Palumbi, Stanford University
00:00 Intro
00:49 Magic underwater worlds
01:36 Corals under threat
03:41 How to protect coral reefs
04:47 Can we toughen up coral reefs?
06:46 Is that enough?
How do you feel about our coral reefs dying?
bad
It's a complete disaster..
But unfortunately people are still failing the environment.
And we don't know if is there a future for either coral reefs or us😢.
Sad but not for them specifically but rather about the indifference of natural selection. If they go extinct, nature will find a "new balance" the same way it did when dinosaurs and other creatures went extinct
initially unfortunate that i can not do anything but now relieved that some of my friends are taking it seriously
Edward Scissorhands at 8:47 .
The sad thing is species have been dying on this rock for millions of years. We are creating an imbalance all by our little selves. Thats amazing. It means we can fix it. At the end of the day we are not worried about them. We worry about us existing w/ out them. I hope this all works out. Love the concept.
Not to forget that what type of sunscreen we use has a huge impact on corals too. That’s why Hawaii for example startet banning certain ingredients.
My BFF and I switched to reef safe when we use it.
Corals are amazing but if people don't live anywhere near them they are not thought about much.
When you can't breathe very well I bet your going to start yelling at the people destroying thousands of corls every dam day for what fish thats literally 40% smaller then it was in 1980 and need 15 more ships to catch the same amount as 1 ship did in 1990.
There the problem no 1 makes change.
We all technically live near them
Turning a blind eye?
These scientists are the real saviours of this world.
Really what makes you think so.....all these things results to nothing...if pollution is not stopped.....
@@anonymous-qm6wqat least they’re doing something to try to help and not just turning a blind eye.
Love that Lego coral stop motion!
I been going to Cozumel Mexico with my best friend for over 30 years..at first it was sporadicly then about 20 years ago I was able to go yearly and the last 3 years or so I’ve gone twice yearly. We just went over Christmas and we were shocked at how many of the coral we see regularly along the shore had turned white. That scared me because we had been there in March and don’t recall seeing anything, I was heartbroken 💔. We haven’t been out to the deep reefs..the Columbian reef and the Palancar reef for a few years because we don’t dive. We’ve decided that the next time we go we’ll take a tour out and see how it looks. I pray that they are still healthy but don’t have a lot of hope. This beautiful island relies on tourism and we have gotten to know many of the locals so it’s hard when you know the people that are affected by these disasters. The vast difference in tourism from even 30 years ago to now is insane, on one hand I would like it to go back to the quieter island but on the other hand I am happy for the residents to have this income, for the reefs sake I would lone it to go back to the way it was.
It's so sad that because of us other creatures are going extinct . Hats off to all the men and women who is trying their best to save them
Coral is amazing! Climate Adam sent me.
I find it depressing that a few individuals, who possess billions, could with a fraction of their fortune (not here to discuss economics and the legitimity of it), make all the research easy and worldwide, as well as financing all the local action. But no, this money stays locked in a bank account and creates only percentage of revenue.
So sad, as the crisis is so happening now.
Anyway, thank you for this video!
I don't think it would really be that easy. If someone were to give away millions or billions to fund research projects, how would they know it is actually going to be used for helpful research? Plenty of charitable organizations are just scams.
@@TruffleSeeker54 Oh, this, I perfectly know. If someone has to donate a fortune, his responsability is also to be sure that it serves a purpose.
I mean, with such a problem, clearly groups of scientists, or even a subgroup of the UN has a basis to create a real structure to use these funds. In the best case, minimal bureaucracy and maximal donation to the researchers and on site workers.
I mean, these individuals, with so much money even their whole generation is ultra rich, could spend half of their time to really focus on something important and useful, including for their own future generation.
That's the sad part, mostly, these fortunes serve no purpose, just gain more benefits from a virtual financial game. That's depressing.
@@user-gu9yq5sj7c Well, I don't disagree with you. The problem, the ultra rich, those who have enogh money to play in the same league as a small coutry generally don't. They arrived at this level because they don't pay taxes, like for Amazon, to take the easy example.
And when they are making charity, it's generally because they gain something, can be other tax reductions, or just for their image, not for the sole benefit of the planet.
About the fondations, like for Microsoft, call me a pessimist, but that's not really to change things, that's for prestige, if not to play a game of influence, in the best cases.
So yes, they are individuals who truly do things, but a vast minority, and who only invest a fraction (even when considerable) of their riches.
So, I don't have a lot of hopes on that, to really change the way of things, at least not for these person with that amount of power.
2 years ago, I got my first betta fish. I fell in love with fish keeping instantly and soon upgraded from a 5g to a 10g, then a 20g, then a 29g. I eventually got my first reef tank and I knew instantly that this was my calling. I decided I wanted to start working with fish and coral preservation in the future. I planned out the steps to get there and although it’s a long journey, I’ve already taken my first step by working with coral at a fish store to learn more! Even though it’s a depressing science, coral is so vital for the future of the world and would be terrible to loose their beauty.
david Blaustein, shalom, as long as you are using sunscreen , you are basically pretending to be doing your bit.
Did you know marine fish keeping is also devastating the ocean as they’re mostly caught not bred?
@@yoon-moon1189 I know many fisheries are problematic, but there are many good ones as well. I firmly believe that more research should be done into learning how to breed many marine fish and otherwise in order to better understand how we can better preserve these conditions in the wild. The yellow tang has been successfully breed in captivity by a few (very few mind you) people now, and while it’s not much it’s progress into more sustainable practices!
@@PHlophe I actually don’t wear sunscreen for that reason/ I don’t really need it anyway :)
@@davidbluestein6984 That’s very important in my opinion as well! Personally I’d love to have a marine tank if they were captive bred instead of taken from the ocean. There should definitely be more research being done into it so not only can fish keepers have sustainably sourced fish but also to reintroduce some back into their natural habitats similarly to wcmm populations being kept alive in aquariums despite their dwindling wild numbers.
maybe a stupid question, but logically shouldn't there also be new areas with water the right temperature for reefs? (i.e. areas that were previously too cold)
young corals are already shifting to cooler waters (subtropical waters), the problem is the amount of sunlight they get and they aren’t able to get the algae they need. Also, they are different fish species in these areas that attack and eat theses new corals. (Sorry English is bad so idk how to explain right but this is being seen in northern Australia, Florida, and Japan I think)
Coral reefs can be so interesting, thanks for the great video! 👏👏
Let's hope this project may help save these reefs from dying, I'm in support for coral genetic engineering which help these animals compact heat.
Great video adam keep it up :D
So awsome that you guys did this video!! Lots of people don't know what lies bellow the ocean surface and how importand corals are.
My friend and I have been snorkeling for 30 years and still can’t get enough of it. I go to Cozumel Mexico all with her 1-2 times a year, she goes 3-4 and we always see something we hadn’t seen before. Unfortunately when we just went over Christmas we saw numerous bleached coral.
Genuinely happy to see the hand with nailpolish ✨
Simple solution - STOP burning fossil fuels!
Very beautiful video thank you for sharing New friend here
I'm a bit worried about genetically modified super algae thriving in the warm waters we create
I am worried about too... Even the Bible already described the first documented red algae boom that "punished" the ancient egypt...
I mean they would have evolved eventually, so why not just speed that up
@@Kiyoone but that could be red tide which are plankton.
The effects can be unintentionally worrying, but at least it can hold the ecosystem strong a little while
What happens when a keystone species goes extinct?
Im truly curious.
Keystone species is like the first domino block. That means we're all f%#&$d
That ecosystem will slowly die as keystone species are essential for balance ecosystem. if you were to create an enclosed system, with everything on it like food and prey and predator, if you remove one, say a predator, the prey will get out of control consuming all the food and later starve to death.
If the wolf vanishes the deer eat all the undergrowth and destroy biodiversity,
The horrific part is that no matter how hard we try, people won't care... People will only start to care when it's gone and people miss it being there... We are the worst apocalypse this world has ever had to endure. Like canser mankind will kill its host
I don't want to nitpick, but weren't those nuclear power plant stacks shown at about 0:40 of the video? Are the gaseous emissions shown primarily steam and not carbon-containing?
Yes. This entire video is designed to fool the ignorant.
yes, its steam used to spin a turbine and cool the reactor
Its good to save the planet that's why when we have concentrated brine we go to the nearest reef and dumping it there, I hope the corals will benefit from those nutritious brine. For mother Earth we'll continue this till she is cured 😌😌😌
I didn't get this part: at 1:51, a new type of promotion?
I started reefing because I am pretty sure sooner or later there won't be no corals in the wild anymore
Why dont we plant coral reefs In places that were previously too cold but In a 2 degree scenario the perfect temperature?
Changing the genetics of corals to adapt to warmer, more acidic water may be the way out.
I already watch a Netflix movie called fluffy about a fish and the interaction with the coral, I feel sad of whats happening to them 😢
They used loudspeakers to play the sound of "healthy reef ecosystems" underwater and it worked....
Superrrr coralllllllll
0:56 Oh wow. The Philippines is surrounded by reeefs.
Do you guys have a Discord server?
Hopefully we can encourage economy leaders to make a change!
We have 8 years left to safe them..
Why not mention how well The Great Barrier Reef is growing back?
The earth is suffocating under the weight of humanity.
Coral are fungi of the sea!
Thank you so much *Sherrie*. How did you manage to get the community fired up? I am so afraid for our Sycamores in California. No one really understands their function but their importance in ecological anchoring is known
Let's use ecosia 👍🌱🌲🌱🌲🙂
You know what also could save our reefs?
Stop burning fossil fuel, imagine that.
No mention on deep sea coral reefs, from which shallow reefs will recover in long run.
how? lol youre shortsighted
Yeah but might as well protect what we have instead of betting on the slight chance where they would survive in the deep seas
Thank you for the feedback @bazilisk1. We try to provide unbiased information, and we do the best we can within a 10 min edit. Thank you for raising this point though!
Why wouldnt corals be able to expand to colder waters? Can they only grow in the tropics?
They take up to 10 000 years to form, theoretically they could form in colder waters but there are many different factors that play into that.
Impossible it is rain Waters' store is main or waters clean up after used ground waters minimum it's mean is without coral time
this is sad to 99 hundreds level that we had to resort to bio-engineer the corals to save not the world but ourselves...
What??? This saves the world too??? Didn't you see the statistics in the video?
@@someyetiwithinternetaccess1253 watch the content
I would like yo get in contact with Sherry Constantine and help as much as I can. Is it possible for you to put me in touch with her?
Ban plastic, 2 words infinite benefits.
Stop using it.
We've touched on topics regarding plastic before. Here are some links:
How to make "plastic" out of algae and mushrooms (th-cam.com/video/KVOG-fG5bD4/w-d-xo.html)
Why recycled ocean plastic is often a lie (th-cam.com/video/4o9-FkSHGWA/w-d-xo.html)
The recycling myth: What actually happens to our plastic (th-cam.com/video/RDFBbxMDi1U/w-d-xo.html)
Is bioplastic the "better" plastic? (th-cam.com/video/-_eGOyAiNIQ/w-d-xo.html)
I feel sick about it. Yet as one small person, feel helpless, and that any/all of my efforts are futile. As someone who lives by the ocean, it baffles me that there aren't more rules and regulations when visiting the ocean. Ie why, if you visit the beach for the day, is it not a requirement that everyone leaves with a bag of garbage they've picked up from the shore (it is mind boggling how much). That may sound stupid, and again futile, but it seems our massively important, life-sustaining oceans aren't getting the respect and attention they deserve. Considering the health of the ocean balances life on earth, why aren't we making this a number one priority VS, well, all the other stupid sh*t everyone is talking about (over and over again). My little opinion. I wish I could do more and i wish people could shift their focus onto this hugely important issue
0:55
The whole Philippines has "red dots", well I guess because the Philippines is the center of the center of the marine biodiversity in the whole world.
More specific would be the Isla Verde passage
It would be great if every single video ended with a tangible call to action like 'call or email your representatives. Script is in description'. At this point, awareness and individual changes aren't going to save us, only unrelenting public pressure will.
Is flying tourists in airplanes, transporting them in cars and serving everything via plastic containers really helping? How many corals die from one person's visit? The very people who claim to want to save these reefs are also contributing to their decline. It's a multifaceted issue, yet they demand less emissions while literally flying people in on something that burns more fuel per second than literally anything else. Or the targeting of the beef industry while the same people own large numbers of pets.
It's easy to demand better of everyone else as long as you're still getting paid. The hypocrisy is mind numbing.
Our reefs? Those are not ours. This is not our planet. We just live here.
Can't we just all turn our AC on at same time and cool it off?
Theoretically you could heat a city cooling the see
@@lorenzoventura7701
*sea.
Also I'm not thermodynamics expert, but heat is never truly 'removed' but just moved.
If you have a window AC unit or felt the backside of a fridge you can feel the heat which to me is the concentrated heat that was absorbed from your room with a window ac unit or the fridge.
Likewise, listen to a parked car with the AC fan on low compared to on highest speed.
Heat is MOVED not eliminated. Only in the universe where the heat energy is spread out so far that it cant produce enough warmth to be perceived anymore.
why not seed artificial coral in colder waters?
Hi,
In the video we mention that the it is easy to forget that coral reefs are actually built from tiny animals (1:15); and while they are home to mind-blowing diversity (0:56) they only cover 1% of the ocean floor (1:00).
@@DWPlanetA , right, yeah, but i've seen efforts where they like dump old tanks and trucks into the ocean to make artificial reefs,
i figure if you seed them progressively north of where the reefs are now, like you know, if you build it, they will come?
The narrator sounds like the Great Value of narrators....
Genetically modifying an organism is a very touchy subject but I'm not against it. I just think we're using this on the wrong species. We should genetically modify the politicians, CEOs, directors and billionaire investors to be less corrupt, less selfish, less narrow-minded and less psychopathic. Doing only that will dramatically improve life on this planet for EVERY living thing including the coral polyps and the majority of human "mortals"
Just leave the reef alone
It's bigger now that at anytime since records began.
We need to stop paying scientists,to save things that don't need saving.
This is why I’m glad people can’t discover the entire ocean,
00 : 40 I always roll my eyes when videos talk about changing climate or something while showing images of nuclear cool towers, who emit 0% CO2. But that's to be expected from a German channel.
We have touched on nuclear power before. You can watch it on our channel here if you like: th-cam.com/video/9X00al1FsjM/w-d-xo.html
Anthropecene
O6
You're talking about the affected people?
Dude, the affected people are the least important thing when it comes to corals.
Imagine an acidic ocean, huh?
The oceans are our planet's most important heat sink. "The ocean absorbs about 90 percent of the excess heat produced as climate change warms the earth".
The corals are extrodinarily fragile organism. A tiny change in the ocean's temperature has devastating effect on the corals. They turn white because the algae inside of it dies, and the coral spits out dead algae - turning white. After small while, the coral goes from whitening to rotting. The corals have been dying for the past decade (and that's being very optimistic). "The Planet has lost at least half of its coral reefs Since 1950".
And corals don't just regrow in a few years. "Depending on their size, barrier reefs and atolls can take from 100,000 to 30,000,000 years to fully form".
All life in the ocean is interdependent, and we talk about removing a whole habitat from such a fragile ecosystem,
If you're wondering "well, how is that gonna affect people": well, guess what: "Scientists estimate that 50-80% of the oxygen production on Earth comes from the ocean".
Combine that with the melting of the poles. They reflect back a big part of the heat and are the reason for most of the ocean currents. Without glaciers, we got next to no ocean currents, which means that the oceans will just become a mass of static watter which will then turn more and more accidic (don't even get me started on the plastic front). Once the ocean is acidic enough, then it will be unable to hold any kind of life. Is there really any need to mention how people are affected by this?
Whenever I saw such earth loss I can't accept it 😤. Then I think hope corona should have been more deadliest killing people randomly balanced wave by wave endless to balance ecosystem
Hearing things like @7:04 doesn't make me go "wow we gotta do more" it makes me go "if that's the case I don't even want to try anymore".
thanks to humans...
There must be side effects to this method. If the coral reefs are really to be saved, might as well pray for more disasters for humanity to occur right now.
More disaster means using more resources to fix the old. Is it what you want?
@@asmeet2005 No, more disasters meaning more natural disasters to kill off more humans, if the humans die off, the environment will be saved.
@@user-sg7gj5pe1i Humanity will still survive until the whole planetary system is messed up. More natural disaster also means more destruction on flora and fauna.
What's up with legos ? If you want to teach kids open other channel for them. Show us normal graphics
I feel like climate change doomsayers completely ignore the advancements of reefs during the Mesozoic era when temps were 12° higher across the globe. That 1° in the next century isn’t as damning as you think.
This was all avoidable.
Endless hype and mindless hysteria. Coral reefs will adapt just like all other life forms.
Do you have any sources that support your claims, Joshua? If so, please feel free to share them with us.
@@DWPlanetA Start with the book 'Reef heresy' by Peter Ridd and the references therein.
We will look into this. Thank you for sharing!
There are so many wrong things said in this. A lot of stuff is just not true. Algae do not give coral color. “Heat resistant coral” is non existent and you can’t selectively breed when reproduction is asexual. Also one coral benefits when it eats another coral, they fail to mention that there are corals for several different types of water levels, temperatures, and flow requirements. Also I saw acans in the “algae resilience” section. Acans are not reef building corals, no amount of acans will make a full reef. Lastly montipora and acropora have thousands of variants and are reef building corals they also grow extremely fast but require a lot of light in most cases. If the depth of the reef was lowered by just a few inches, the whole reef would be at a slightly lower temperature and certain less light requiring acro and monti could grow. Aka knock down some corals and place new ones there and move the old ones elsewhere.
And also that whole thing about bleaching was not true. Corals bleach when they literally die. There’s another type of thing that looks like bleaching called polyp bail out, the coral leaves it’s exoskeleton behind. They described polyp bail out and then called it bleaching. If temperatures get too hot typically polyp bail out occurs, not bleaching. The coral
Hopes to find a better location to grow by jumping ship. Unfortunately, other corals will attack it before it finds a good location.
Last thing, corals can reproduce sexually, which is much more quick and results in far more genetic variation, why are we not doing more research on little known sexual reproduction of corals…
Can you save your fish stocks from china? No
If everything we do still isn't enough to save the coral, why bother trying? Seems like you're just pointing at a problem with no solution. That's usually my beef with climate change too though
Hi there, if you watch the video 3:44 min in, we introduce a scientist and conservationist who touches on this topic.
You lost me at hairy arms with painted nails 🤢😂
Can you make a video about childfreedom? Not reproducing is a lot more effective in preserving nature than taking the train.
Could have done better than the Lego presentation. 🤦🏻