Coral Reefs Are Dying. Here's How We Can Save Them | Hot Mess 🌎

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    Coral reefs cover less than one percent of the seafloor, and yet they’re home to a quarter of all marine life, making them some of the most biodiverse places on Earth. But their future looks bleak. Decades of environmental threats like warming waters and ocean acidification have pushed reefs to the brink. Can we use science to bring them back?
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  • @daanvandongen1422
    @daanvandongen1422 5 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    your puns are getting worse per video!
    i love it.

  • @veggieboyultimate
    @veggieboyultimate 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I don't care how long it takes, people need to revive coral reefs

  • @rionsealtielgarcia6010
    @rionsealtielgarcia6010 5 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    I wanted too become a marine biologist someday and this is one of the reasons why.

    • @v_saaam
      @v_saaam 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I hope you do. Good luck!

    • @jocelyn6247
      @jocelyn6247 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Me too!

    • @rionsealtielgarcia6010
      @rionsealtielgarcia6010 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lol thx

    • @ZomBeeNature
      @ZomBeeNature 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "To two too" said the grammarsaurus.

    • @matpikachu
      @matpikachu 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's a tough and gueling journey. But, if u really love it then you will endure it no matter what!

  • @thereviewers30303
    @thereviewers30303 5 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    im so happy that channels like these really educate us well about our climate and how to prevent climate change :)

  • @danielbailey8001
    @danielbailey8001 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    And this is why I want to become a marine biologist.
    Great video!! Thank you!!

    • @HotMessPBS
      @HotMessPBS  5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Good luck! The corals need you

    • @lexvegers242
      @lexvegers242 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'd like to expand on the answer: All marine life needs you. Bonne chance.

    • @danielbailey8001
      @danielbailey8001 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you very much, guys. Hopefully I will be of some benefit to all marine life - and, thus, to all life on Earth. And good luck to anyone else starting out on the same endeavour!!

    • @shellydurunna
      @shellydurunna 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Good luck earth needs you

    • @caminantesilvestre
      @caminantesilvestre 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thought I was the only one with this reason! Gogo go go!

  • @xxmushisushixx1049
    @xxmushisushixx1049 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Thank you, this helped me with a school essay🙏🏾

  • @CoMtLion
    @CoMtLion 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This channel needs way more subscribers! Thanks for the awesome video.

  • @luthfifalaqi8138
    @luthfifalaqi8138 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nice animation, even nicer information. Thanks for uploading videos like this, both ur channel r awesome. You made my day, once again, thanks.

  • @bishnupriyasaikia1378
    @bishnupriyasaikia1378 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Great video as always

  • @nithinraghav1179
    @nithinraghav1179 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hot mess videos are very informative & knowledgeable ! Way to go Team PBS

  • @DuluthTW
    @DuluthTW 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Every coral reef may also serve a porpoise. Great episode. Thanks for sharing!

  • @Dragrath1
    @Dragrath1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    One thing that was both shocking and enlightening was to learn the paleontological record for coral namely how coral reefs have convergently evolved numerous times only to get wiped out in subsequent mass extinctions bringing disastrous circumstances for what species had lived at the time. And never before has one species been the driving force behind a major mass extinction, all of them required the concurrence of multiple coinciding disasters both to push life to the brink and then drop it off the edge. We have somehow in our short sighted arrogant greed as a species found a way to do both...

    • @jordanz4264
      @jordanz4264 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That’s why they call us the 6th mass extinction event

    • @ananya.a04
      @ananya.a04 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We truly are horrible, but we must not let the greed and ignorance of a few destroy our beautiful home.

    • @mtl-ss1538
      @mtl-ss1538 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jordanz4264 The Great Barrier Reef is one of the planet’s natural jewels, stretching for more than 2,300km along Australia’s north-east.
      But as well as being a bucket-list favourite and a heaving mass of biodiversity across 3,000 individual reefs, the world heritage-listed organism is at the coalface of the climate crisis.
      Yet this week, a report on the amount of coral across the reef showed the highest level in the 36 years of monitoring in the north and central parts.

  • @alexixeno4223
    @alexixeno4223 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Glaring so hard at that pun right now.

  • @herryhen
    @herryhen 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey Joe, this is a very great video!! I wanted to let you know about something called coralliths. They can also potentially help restore reefs!

  • @Youn06311
    @Youn06311 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's super informative thank you so much

  • @xavierm8803
    @xavierm8803 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this really helped me to do my speech for school

  • @jengilbert8858
    @jengilbert8858 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Would have liked to see the effects of disease carrying plastics on corals included. I know this channel is specifically about warming, but related issues like pollution from petroleum products seems relevant. Do the grown corals resist diseases carried by plastic pollution better than wild counterparts? Are the chemicals in plastic affecting coral reproduction like with other animals?

  • @Jsteelebaby
    @Jsteelebaby 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    love the vid bro !!!!!!!!!

  • @MrFindX
    @MrFindX 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love this channel

  • @sufimdatiqurrahma3130
    @sufimdatiqurrahma3130 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    very good explain .

  • @TheNightwalker247
    @TheNightwalker247 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for the great video

  • @Zaekk
    @Zaekk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Grats on the 69k subs

  • @SciFyerGaming
    @SciFyerGaming 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is one of the more hopeful videos on climate change I have seen today. good work guys!

  • @ananya.a04
    @ananya.a04 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Flora & fauna of the sea is just as precious and ethereal as that on land. Both must be protected and conserved at all costs. 😌

  • @samanthabailey02
    @samanthabailey02 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you

  • @Dreamtime-Walker
    @Dreamtime-Walker 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    A Labour of Love 🤲🪸

  • @awkweird_panda
    @awkweird_panda 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Most underrated PBS channel after Infinite Series. Content Quality is quite high. Unfortunately people fail to realise that.

  • @MONKEYDLUFFY-ci6wh
    @MONKEYDLUFFY-ci6wh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Awesome video !!
    And 5 th 😯

  • @napnap8350
    @napnap8350 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wait until Jotaro hears about this

  • @ianprado1488
    @ianprado1488 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    We can use molten salt reactors to reverse ocean acidification or to create carbon neutral synthetic fuels. Please make a proper video about advanced fourth generation nuclear power

  • @mrpepperonipizza3287
    @mrpepperonipizza3287 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm so depressed that my favourite place is dying

  • @facitenonvictimarum174
    @facitenonvictimarum174 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Porpoises, dolphins, and ex-Trumpies: all Flippers

  • @namenotavailable9989
    @namenotavailable9989 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Thank you scientists
    Please save us from stupid ignorant people

  • @philheaton1619
    @philheaton1619 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Many years ago, electrified metal grids were used to quickly create coral reefs to stimulate fish breeding and create habitats. Couldn't that be used to restore coral formations that have been harmed by warmer water?

  • @caminantesilvestre
    @caminantesilvestre 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice video! Unfortunately coral reforestation has no sense if Environmental conditions are not the proper

  • @christianlassen1577
    @christianlassen1577 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks for a hopeful outlook on a hard topic. Rather than being discouraging and grim, you give ideas and encouragement.
    What about breeding projects? Yes DNA manipulation is cool and all, can we breed varieties of coral to withstand harsher conditions and demands?

  • @elgracko
    @elgracko 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why not seed artificial coral reefs in cooler waters?

  • @ZomBeeNature
    @ZomBeeNature 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Individually gluing pieces of coral onto dead reefs could only help a tiny area just because of the impossibility of people being able to physically cover 70% of the planet. But we might as well try everything we can.

    • @Nico-kf8wr
      @Nico-kf8wr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Zom Bee Nature. Remember that coral reefs only cover less than 1% of the sea floor

    • @ZomBeeNature
      @ZomBeeNature 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Nico-kf8wr oh... I missed that part at the beginning.

    • @mtl-ss1538
      @mtl-ss1538 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Nico-kf8wr The Great Barrier Reef is one of the planet’s natural jewels, stretching for more than 2,300km along Australia’s north-east.
      But as well as being a bucket-list favourite and a heaving mass of biodiversity across 3,000 individual reefs, the world heritage-listed organism is at the coalface of the climate crisis.
      Yet this week, a report on the amount of coral across the reef showed the highest level in the 36 years of monitoring in the north and central parts.

  • @thecreature7608
    @thecreature7608 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What if we could genetically modify the algae to work the same way in warmer temperatures? And as a safety mechanism, only be able to live a short time outside the specific host coral. So that they don't do more harm than good. Could that work?

  • @lukazohar6159
    @lukazohar6159 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    0:18 I dont really think pike swims in the ocean...

  • @exari_
    @exari_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    minute earth voice i know you :)

  • @venomsnakessidepiece
    @venomsnakessidepiece 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    What I find an interesting way to point out the reality of climate change to people, is through showing the interrelated ways everything is affected. It's easy for anyone to think it's fiction because the reality sounds dramatic, but only because we don't see the bigger picture. It's really simple: one thing affects another. So it should be obvious that anything we do, has some kind of a consequence. Once people understand that, it's easier to convey the reality like videos such as this one.

  • @WildsDreams45
    @WildsDreams45 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Coral are not endangered of extinction. Once the sixth great mass extinction is over the few coral specials that survived will evolve into new forms as they take on new environments and whatever else survived the mass extinction.

  • @marcopohl4875
    @marcopohl4875 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    ...puns are my purpoise in life...

  • @javierdrake1803
    @javierdrake1803 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Similarly make a video on rainforests.

  • @ve6ga
    @ve6ga ปีที่แล้ว

    i need some sources

  • @kevinaugustsson2202
    @kevinaugustsson2202 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lol, I don't think there are many pikes in the coral reefs..

  • @popasmurph8773
    @popasmurph8773 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'll tell you what it is... It's evolution baby!

  • @helpme5785
    @helpme5785 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Someone pour a BUNCH of tums into the ocean

  • @BiologyIsHot
    @BiologyIsHot 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow ocean acidification is a very very backburner issue for coral. I don't like that you brought it up. The heat from the CO2 is an issue way way before the acidification. Almost not even worth mentioning.

  • @danreyes736
    @danreyes736 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why not glue fake colorful coral to the sea bed? My mom uses fake flowers all the time.

  • @peterdollins3610
    @peterdollins3610 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Needs the taps turned off filling the atmosphere with C02 whilst taking up more C02 by planting more trees, hemp, vertical sea farms et al until C02 and methane reduces. On personal, political and collective levels.

  • @williamsledge3151
    @williamsledge3151 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Even in this channel Joe makes puns.

  • @jakubvokral4082
    @jakubvokral4082 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wana cry when seeing whole see ecosystems around me dead.

  • @integinteg9222
    @integinteg9222 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The reefs are fine

  • @ddt9164
    @ddt9164 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    4:21 #baddna

  • @daevaskye
    @daevaskye ปีที่แล้ว

    Coral reefs are not dying! Bleached coral is a temporary phenomena that the reefs quickly recover from. Since most of the worlds corals live in the warmest tropical waters and it is known that during periods in earths history when oceans were warmer that coral reefs flourished, then how can warmer water be killing them? It makes no sense but does appeal to scientists emotionally attached to their anthropogenic climate change models and also gives them lots of grants due to the interest their catastrophic predictions generate.

  • @colsylvester639
    @colsylvester639 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can Hot Mess tell us science, climate change information hungry viewers about cold water corals? They seem to get forgotten compared to the stony corals that are more visible. Maybe not as susceptible as they don't need zooxanthellae to survive, but they are still at risk from us pesky upright apes!

  • @thesilentgod7863
    @thesilentgod7863 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    we should use genetic engineering to create highly resistant strains of existing species

  • @anddutoi1488
    @anddutoi1488 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I meditate to save them

  • @1337dude
    @1337dude 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Even if coral reefs can adapt to a changing world, the animals on the polar ice caps won't evolve to a warming world. The world shouldn't warm.

  • @fletzyproductions1190
    @fletzyproductions1190 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just commenting to help the algorithym

  • @davidbeaulieu4815
    @davidbeaulieu4815 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sorry mostly dead already this summer predicted mmmm bad mildly put.

  • @regyoyobad4860
    @regyoyobad4860 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi 2nd

  • @Dreams-zy3ci
    @Dreams-zy3ci 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ima be dead by 2100 soooooooo

  • @ChronitonMechanics
    @ChronitonMechanics 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice animations...
    Enjoy the collapse.

  • @xchopp
    @xchopp 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    See: Chasing Coral www.chasingcoral.com/

  • @stm7810
    @stm7810 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love how people say "overfishing' like there's some magical non-zero amount of suffication, torture and polution acceptable because "it tastes good"

  • @Miguel-yh7le
    @Miguel-yh7le 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    10th comment

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    @boneful5781 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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  • @shinchanthebest
    @shinchanthebest 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    601 liker

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    @gertrudehamilton2536 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Delivance evangelize church

  • @kabirulhassan3228
    @kabirulhassan3228 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Could you drop videos more frequently plz? Rather than uploading 1 per week it would be better if you could upload 2 per week.

    • @MiracleWinchester
      @MiracleWinchester 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Kabirul Hassan says the commenter who barely has any idea how much work goes into each video. Just be grateful ffs

    • @kabirulhassan3228
      @kabirulhassan3228 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MiracleWinchester well if i like the channel i can definetly ask for more... i dont think they would mind that

    • @SongbirdOfficial
      @SongbirdOfficial 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      If you want them to make videos more frequently, then they'll need more money. They need to pay people for all the work that goes into these- art, writing, research, voiceovers, etc. Their Patreon is right there, or you can donate to PBS.

    • @kabirulhassan3228
      @kabirulhassan3228 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SongbirdOfficial let me do what i think is good. please keep quiet. if u think they have so many problems then u donate

    • @MiracleWinchester
      @MiracleWinchester 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Derpion the Derpy so true!

  • @seasong7655
    @seasong7655 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is pretty sad, but it's also natural selection. Only the resistant corals will survive

    • @jamesmule
      @jamesmule 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Well, technically it is natural selection, it's just that the selective pressure is too big because environmental changes are too drastic because they're happening too fast for the corals to adapt.

    • @mtl-ss1538
      @mtl-ss1538 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jamesmule The Great Barrier Reef is one of the planet’s natural jewels, stretching for more than 2,300km along Australia’s north-east.
      But as well as being a bucket-list favourite and a heaving mass of biodiversity across 3,000 individual reefs, the world heritage-listed organism is at the coalface of the climate crisis.
      Yet this week, a report on the amount of coral across the reef showed the highest level in the 36 years of monitoring in the north and central parts.