What's Killing Florida's Corals? (It's Not What You Think) | Overview
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- Corals all over the world are threatened by warming ocean temperatures. But 30 years of data show that reefs off the Florida Keys could protect themselves from rising temperatures if they weren’t also dealing with nutrient pollution coming from land. What’s weakening these corals? Sewage. And there’s something we can do about it.
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Florida seriously need to do major environmental protection.
Problem is they keep electing science denying Republicans who keep refusing to acknowledge there's a major problem. There are places in Miami that flood every single day whether it rains or not. 20 years ago, that didn't happen.
@@gfear24 smh
Yeah ,NASA is the biggest problem
@@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 no, you're the problem
@@CBC460 Blah blah blah
Imagine thinking it would be a good idea to pump sh!t water into the ocean...mind boggling...whoever led that project must not have been a seafood lover
you think that's bad they found barrels of DDT off the shores of California
Thanks for killing my appetite
@Neil Deep I guess our superiority is making people seethe
@@ABC-jg3pv American values suck, just like how the values of average people suck. (Average in the sense that they haven't done any introspection/deepwork hence they are "basic/predictable"
@@nathansilvestre1866 .... it seems to be so true. I was brought up old school, children were to be seen and not heard, you never interrupted adults when they were talking, you did what you were told, and of course when childhood mistakes/indiscretions were made, they had consequences ! ! !
Good to hear they're taking action against it. So sad to see coral reefs die
It's actually impressive how many different ways humans are negatively affecting the oceanic ecosystem.
I live right on Lake Erie and the annual algae blooms are heartbreaking to watch..
Florida born and grown and tbh this is honestly the most hope I've had in a long time for my state. Thank God for these researchers doing this life saving work! Definitely love seeing this content
Mad respect for Dr. Brian Lapointe 🙏
Just when I needed nothing else to worry about...
I know... 😢🥺
Don't worry about what you can't do anything about.
there's a happy ending! ish!
@@femstora
The Serenity Prayer
God,
Grant me the wisdom to accept the things that I cannot change.
The courage to change the things that I can, and
The wisdom to know the difference.
⚘🙏❤🙏⚘
Right?
Hey just wanted to comment that Alaska also has coral reefs. It has one of the most diverse cold reefs in the North Pacific off of the Aleutian Islands.
We should start pump some shit onto it. That’ll teach them!
@@teudaan or pumping crap into the aquaphor like we are doing, that way they can pump it back up for drinking water🤮
He did say continental US, but he probably meant contiguous US, a common mistake.
@@jfo738 Maybe Aleutian islands being far from shore don’t count lol. Its all subjective if California annexed Hawaii then they would be part of the contiguous US like the Keys are part of Florida and thus contiguous.
Suddenly I don’t want to swim at the beach anymore 🤢 👉💩
Or go to.
Dont eat seafood from florida either !!!
Science translating to legislated change in Florida? Thank you Brian !
Fun fact: The sargasso sea has been off the Atlantic since Portugal came across it in the 1500s.
You completely left out the fact that Hurricane Irma Freight trained right over looe key and did most of the damage. I haven’t noticed any significant increase in Sargassum (weed lines) over the past 25+ years I’ve been fishing in the keys. All of the septic systems were replaced with municipal sewer in big pine a few years ago. Also- Rising seawater is not the reason septic tanks are leaching out- It’s improper maintenance, MaSsiVe amounts of rain, flooding, & sheetflow.
"I haven't personally anecdotally confirmed your science, so I'm going to pretend it isn't science, and that my singular anecdotal perspective backed up by preconceived notions and ignorance is empirically valid instead." Ooookay, boomer. Here's your sippy cup.
An optimistic end???! Whoa.
There's a new study that came out that says corals are expanding on the Great barrier reef.
I am a fish keeper so I know how bad messing with the water like this can be. We need our fish! They’re an important part of the ecosystem
Unfortunately there are too many who could "not give a sh#t"
And yet they do "give a sh#t"
into untreated septic tanks.
Hence the problem
Yep, no one wants to admit its their shit ruining the earth.
This is a HUGELY helpful video-Thank you! We are dealing with this same problem in Utah Lake, and developers are trying to convince people that dredging the lake (to build artificial, residential islands in the middle) will solve the blooms. That will only ADD to the problem!
Weird, it's like capitalism is the issue, or something. Weird.
Concepts in regenerative agriculture and permaculture should be part of education curriculum.
Agreed
Yeah, let's focus on just cleaning up the mess after it's made. Instead of putting the crazy criminal causing it -- capitalism -- behind bars and putting a reasonable person -- socialism -- in charge.
"Its not what you think"
Synopsis: humans
I was right without even knowing it
You mean capitalism. Lmao. Blaming "humans" is like blaming Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson for gun violence. No, you blame the actual *problem* itself, which in this case is capitalism, with a very obvious solution that everybodies too propagandizes against to accept. Propagandized by the same corporate fucks and conservative cucks responsible for the entire situation.
Joe, its lovely to hear you.
Excelkwnt research resulting in better treatment technologies! Bravo!
I live right where the reef starts at the northern most point; Sebastian Inlet/Vero Bch, and there is always sargasam here. Esp heavy when windy out of the East.
Crazy good video but sad that there's a need for one.
I don't even have to watch the video to know it's exactly what I think it is: human activity.
More and more people move to florida and they keep building housing, without adding sewage treatment plants.
Cutting out all the Mangroves has also effected the reef, it 's a shame I've seen the big starry coral heads die in front of me in Lauderdale by the sea, now they're putting an artificial reef in right beside the reef smh
The artifical reef is probably atleast partly to stop illegal trawling fishing which is why they're by the real ones, the rope gets cut by the artificial reef, atleast that's what they're doing of the coast of Italy
@@shack12319 There is no trawling where I live, the reef I'm talking about is in 10-25 feet of water, they just slapped around a 100 6x12' concrete slabs in the sand between the reefs, I don't see anything growing on them, I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
Has there been any research into recycling the nitrogen for agriculture or reforestation?
Using nitrogen for agriculture (fertilizer) is part of the problem. Excess fertilizer leeches into the water and it all ends up in the ocean in the end anyway.
Ah, yes, recycling, because recycling is an act of sustainability and climate consciousness, and totally not just a method to minimize the expenses and maximize the profits, while providing an excellent PR cover, for polluting corporations so that they can continue to pollute while making consumers feel directly responsible for their corporate pollution. Yeah, no, I'm sure recycling will have a *totally positive impact* the *exact same way* it has had a *totally positive and not at all completely destructive* impact over the past 50 years. lmao no cap point out literally a single situation that recycling has actually *improved* in the long-run, and you'll have figured out how to self-induce a delusional hallucinatory state.
TL;DR: Your train of "thought" is literally why this is a problem in the first place.
Same for bays on long island its septic as the main destruction also over claming and fishing
It's a combination of mostly the Lake Okee discharges, outflow sewage pipes spewing bacteria(i.e. Serratia Marcescens has affected the Elkhorn/Staghorn/brain coral colonies in the Keys, as well as fertilizers/phosphates flowing into bays/ocean and beach renourishment projects which have killed sea grasses. ) Despite all that there's hope; thickets of staghorn coral growing back in South FL and the reef around deeper waters is in good shape. The corals mostly affected are stony corals. Soft corals, sea mats/polyps, gorgonians and such are everywhere so there's still a lot of life and coral in these reefs. Btw, to be fair the Dems have done very little to restore the flow of Lake Okee to the Everglades(8 yrs of the O administration and almost nothing was done; the Lake is under federal-gov control ) so they need to stfu. Most of these comments are from people who are not diving these reefs.
Very informative used to live right next to FAU ! ! !
FOR SOME 8 YEARS VACATIONING ON VIRGIN GORDA, staying at BEYCLUB, but I first swam to a non dive site, observing as I went, I saw things. Deteriote, but no one swims there, there is NO AGRICULTURE, so nitrogen should not be a problem, but septics are the norm, so that could be a problem, also for years nearI beach & near the mangroves, there was a :strange yellow/green algal groth , like you see in ponds , nobody I ask can tell me nothing, I was last there in 91, strange things are happening to corals all over , but thanks for this video, 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
That's right! Thank you!
Thank you Brian
Ban or tighten controls on fertilizer.The benefits are not worth the damage. The sewage, goes without saying. Good for advancement in technology and those contributing.
Ah, Joe Hanson!
Comforting to know there is an environmental solution in the works.
It's just out of sight, they are pumping crap into the aquaphor...did you not hear that? That's not a solution!!!!
@@patriciatoomingtheplantpar2558 it will be resolved in the course of five years.
@@patriciatoomingtheplantpar2558 low info troll 😂 cant even spell.
If reef aquarium are any guide, algae blooms can be controlled by seeding nitrification bacteria and liverocks. Saturated limewater remove CO2 from the water column by conversion into carbonate.
It’s sad.lots of Oahu Hawaii’s Reef is dead to
30 years ago I took a trip for a year coming back home to the keys I didn’t even recognize my own backyard the reef along the Fl Keys. Due to the death of reefs which I dove daily I didn’t recognize because the reefs were dead, brown and fish had left the area.
Damn… That sounds heartbreaking
I know where you are talking about. Watched the coral dying off all over the Keys for many years. Did lots of diving every year. I always wondered about runoff. Fertilizers and such. Thinking of the Mississippi River bringing lots of nutrients. But, how to then explain this happening all over the world at once ???
That floating algae is ruining Playas Beach scene. All the beaches were black this summer. The diving was pretty good though
I gotta believe Joe on purposed took long enough to say "like this rat" for the video to cut to the chihuahua at 7:29
Humanity is sad that they thought dumping sewage into the ocean was a good idea. 😒
Same here in my pond. Algae infestation. But I think it's a Florida stuff. I can't starve my fishes and algae grows with very few nitrogen
The boil, it must be called the poople...
Thank you for this excellent educational video! Good stuff here and good work! WE ALL need to put our 2 cents today or our planet will die. Actually, I think at this point, based on all of the damage we have already done, we can only slow it down. It is so sad! We will share this video.
We're inside an oven, turning the temperature up. We'll be incinerated long before the house catches on fire; and even if that fire melts the entire oven, the ashes of the house will just fertilize plants. Five centuries from now there won't be a single identifiable trace of humanity. 10-200 meters of sea level rise will Noah's Ark-level flood every aspect of human civilization away like so much chalk scratch on a board thrown out in the rain, and a millenia from now feedback loops will have regained equilibrium and life will continue on, minus one pathogenic macroorganism that has thoroughly wasted any and all opportunity we had to earn the right to continue existing. We lost, and there's no do overs -- not at this point.
What’s killing Florida corals? It’s the legendary FLORIDA MAN
Can that algae and seaweed be gathered and used for fertilizer?
Yes it can. The seaweed I know for sure is excellent fertilizer.
Any tips on how general consumers can help with this problem??? I'd love to do my part, as small as it may be, every little bit counts.
Capitalism is the issue. Global general strike is the only pathway to the only solution: global socialism that completely disintermediates capitalism and the profit-motive. As long as it's profitable for some Board Director somewhere to authorize a CEO's polluting plan(s), environmental damage will continue. How can it not? How can your "conscious consumption" do anything other than just redirect profit towards some other company with better sustainability PR who's still polluting, cutting corners, generating CO2 for profit, and existing solely for profit. lmao. honestly. If every little bit helps, it's also true that every little bit of complacent complicity -- every little bit of helping the system -- helps to literally kill the poorest and most disadvantaged who are most directly suffering climate change, in the 3rd world, before us privileged whities in the imperial core have to suffer any real damage. Every little bit you do that *is not agitating for class consciousness and revolution* is a little bit that helps the polluting executives and shareholders.
I've seen those sargassum tides on the beaches of Galveston. Just a dense gross carpet of them blanketing the shoreline. They're kinda nasty and they stink. It really changes the whole beach-going experience, and not in a good way.
They are actually good fertilizer for your plants
I believe they are also edible when they are still alive (not stinky) but from what I've seen not tasty.
Guys, I been saying it for years.....STOP dropping me in the ocean!!!
Feeling sad 😔
Then there is the Mississippi river disgorging all the fertilizer runoff from the lawns and agriculture of the center of the country into the Gulf of Mexico causing a dead zone the size of New Hamshire. It then enters the Florida Loop current which brings it South along the coast of Florida where it picks up more nitrogen from Florida Crystals (Big Sugar) and lawns and argiculture and brings it right across the reef systems of the Florida Keys. The problem is much bigger than Florida's poop.
Environmental protection in Florida equals dump the poop out beside the lake and hook your cousin up with a job labeled as a fix all, and don't fix a thing.
i remember when new york was doing this or is it new york does it too
I'll bet Nabisco is helping destroy coral
Nitrogen in the crops!? I can't believe you didn't think to mention all the nitrogen that is put into just about every American's yard every year every month by pest/pawn control and environmental companies! That is a huge part of this!!!
tears my heart apart to see this, just surfing web and found this, how many more ways can HUMANTY find to attack and wound this gorgeous planet !!! so much bad going on and so few are even aware or care !!!!! we are all guilty !!!!!
This video mentioned manure, deforestation, and agricultural run off as causes of this eutrophication problem. Animal agriculture is responsible to a large extent.
“A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use.”. -Joseph Poore, Environmental Science Researcher, University of Oxford.
"Eating a vegan diet could be the “single biggest way” to reduce your environmental impact on earth, a new study suggests. Researchers at the University of Oxford found that cutting meat and dairy products from your diet could reduce an individual's carbon footprint from food by up to 73 per cent.Sep 24, 2020"
Links on my channel under "About."
Animal agriculture is a major cause of deforestation. The main reason the Amazon is being intentionally burned is to graze cattle and grow soy. More than 70% of soy is used to fatten animals for slaughter, and to produce dairy.
how do you even know I think at all!?
How do you mention red tide in Chesapeake Bay but not the Gulf coast of Florida? And the phosphate pit leaks making it worse?!
A good example is the Salton Sea California look it up
@Neil Deep I don't think so
It won't help the overall problem, I know, but I wonder - is there any way to get SOME kind of benefit from all these algal blooms? Some sea algae and kelp and such is edible, right? Would it be practical on any level to actively harvest some of this overgrowth *before* it dies off?
If we even just - I don't know, scooped up half of the stuff in a given season...? It just seems like there should be SOMETHING we can do with all that biomass.
Edible? Probably not. But it might be useful as a fertilizer?
Do you understand it's living in raw crap, feeding on raw crap!
The answer is NO, not for humane consumption
Capitalism: "There's a way to profit off of everything!" Is the literal sentiment that has caused this literal issue. Your thought is well-intentioned but DEEPLY MISGUIDED and extremely violent in it's long-term implications. Educate yourself: capitalism is the issue, socialism is the only solution. Deny that, and you are the problem, plain and simple.
3 people don't poop.
6:23 Imagine accidentally falling into all that shit.
Imagine pumping it back up down stream after they pumped it down there
Glyphosate persistence in seawater
Glyphosate “Roundup” is one of the most widely applied herbicides globally, but its persistence in seawater has not been reported.
Water quality and pesticides in the Great Barrier Reef
There has been increasing concern over the global loss of corals and seagrass, and this has been particularly well documented for the World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef.
Nearshore water quality around reefs and seagrass beds is most heavily impacted during the summer wet season from November to March when heavy rains deliver river runoff containing excess sediments, nutrients, and pesticides.
-ScienceDirect
As a horticulturist I can assure you that the industry is *fucking well aware* of the implications of glyphosate in water. It's a direct literal threat to the safety of applicators, and we're trained accordingly. The fact that that's completely separate from any sort of practical or useful environmental regulations is utterly unsurprising. It's profitable for companies to ensure their applicators stay safe from the dangerous chemical(s), because training staff is expensive; it's profitable for companies to ensure there's lack of surety and indecision about the safety of the chemical outside of their employment practices, because then they can self-regulate (ie not) and profit more with less expense, and with all of the risks borne by third-party's (residents, downstream, neighbours, etc) and the employees themselves. Believe me, capitalism is the issue, and the only solution is socialism. Anything else *is only the problem*
We have to stop dumping substances where they don’t belong.
Ummm... Pretty sure it not the chemical dispersant that they pumped into the gulf during the BP spill. Not the oil either. My too e along.
Sigh... it's florida they're not going to fix this.
Duh starting with Jeb Bush
Nope, out of sight out of mind pump crap underground
Agree...started with Jeb
They already are. Most of the sewage discharges have been stopped.
I wonder if anything can be done to encourage the reef's growth or speed it up
I know the corals on Rotund Bay, Honduras die from beach visitors who urinate.
They talk about waiste but they don't talk about nuclear waste do they
how about that glyphosate?
Looks like human over population, and our over use of natural resources, is knocking the ecosystem out of balance.
I’m sure it’s what is killing the Great Barrier Reef. Rising water temperatures.
Don't worry the corals that can survive for about 50 more year will be able to grow on the houses that are submerged from melting ice. Nature finds a way
True enough. Even if we're ignorant shitfucks that just allow capitalism to continue until it asphyxiates us all for profit, global feedback loops will just bury us in our own special, barely perceptible layer of dirt. Poetic justice, if nothing else.
@@RosscoAW indeed. Honestly if we eventually drive ourselves to extinction it's what we deserve. That said we shall see what happens when all the boomers die.
You guys lost me when you tried to blame sea level rise as part of the problem.
We don’t have three years.
What ever there's alot more going on than what this tells you
What are you going to do about Parrot Fish…. that eat coral ? Somehow reefs manage to survive Parrot Fish
And sunscreen lotions
Florida has an enormous amount of homes connected to the water. They should really ban the use of domestic fertilizer. Especially for lawns. It is unnecessary and so damaging and terrible from every angle from it's non renewable and destructive production to the complete runoff.
And yet fertilizer is one of the largest profit-generating industries in the world. So, yeah, good luck with that happening literally ever while capitalism is still a thing. lmao
Nitrogen should be redirected to agriculture and fertilizer....
So instead of building a wetland system to filter sewage water in to drinkable water they go the cheapest rout and pump waste water straight down into our Aquifers where we all get our drinkable tap water...
It's almost like it's capitalism, or something. *genuinely exasperated by how people don't make the obvious leap to recognizing that socialism is the solution*
Just like a giant fish tank
Now do California, their poop just magically disappears…….. Into the Ocean, You guessed it
How the FUCK is that even allowed to just dump in the ocean?!
During most of it's time, Florida somewhere starting between below Gainseville and North of Orlando was under water. I'm at 140' above sea level. Come dig in my back yard, and keep digging. There is no "soil", it is made up of tiny sea shells and marine fossils. The paleo geologic maps most often show this line South as being under water. The seas were much warmer most of Earth's life after continents were roughly where they are now.
Oceans are dying from too many
Isn't sargassum a useful resource? Why not harvest it into dried animal feed? WTF
The tourism industry as we know it needs to stop.
Workers deserve a comfortable life while being able to say no to visitors.
End forced labor!
Land lords should quit their "jobs"
Property hoarding should be illegal
Rent is extortion
Eviction is violence
No one gets a second house until everyone has one
If you can, please help my soon to be evicted family
Only covid protections kept us safe. Go fund me in the descriptions of my videos
@@GaasubaMeskhenet i know in the uk they make houses just empty to raise house market, its sick and should be illegal!
@@littleowl22778 there's an abandoned building in my city that could fit ALL of our city's homeless
Cope and seethe, rentoids should be homeless
My fantasy would be Florida getting told what for and how to behind the woodshed by DC:
"No, this is what is going to happen: you are going to use these agriculture methods from now on. You are reducing runoff by 80% and if YOU won't fine the people for dumping, we will. There will be replanting of mangroves and incorporating them into canals. You also going to restore the canebrakes and Miami is going to become so green it will be renamed the Emerald Friggin' City.
Fail any of these, and Uncle Sam's purse shuts for Social Security. How many old age homes do you have again?!
Genuinely as ignorant of a take as it is well-intentioned and misguided: very. Literally in what capitalist world would your little fantasy situation happen, and how, and why? Capitalism, ding dong, capitalism is the issue, socialism is the solution, and failing to recognize that makes *you* the problem. Not "Florida". You.
Job opportunities. Do the job well, do the job right, and help the environment sincerely.
Right, because capitalism isn't directly responsible for the situation to begin with, or anything. Use some brain cells. Seriously.
Coral does not need to be pluralized 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Acid spills, plastic continent, Fisnet pollution, petrols spills, radioactive polluted water, overfishing, destruction of underground reefs by intensive fishing and you talk to me about poop ?
When there is a way to fix a problem people like to look the other way.
carbon dioxide dissolved in water is carbonic acid.
TL;DR: It's me. Sorry everyone I was dumping 10 tons of carbonic acid into the ocean every day until I learned that's bad. Oops! Mb!
In summary, people are killing corals. Sigh.
Humanity is so gross.
Why hasn't everyone seen this??? We're pooping the oceans to death!? Tell the people YT!