Pollution cuts have diminished “ship track” clouds, adding to global warming

Species like tuna and sharks are especially vulnerable to these changes.

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/1690447

On a brisk winter's day in Sydney, most people find the seawater temperature near freezing.

A team of Sydney scientists are getting creative about how to provide these underwater gardens with the best chance of survival against global warming, starting with coral found in Sydney Harbour.

Using these findings, researchers will give corals what a nutritional supplement is to humans, but instead of vitamin C, it's fat.

"If corals can feed well, they've got a better chance at surviving a bleaching event."

"The window for saving the Great Barrier Reef and other reefs in the world is getting smaller and smaller", she cautioned.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/8531184

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/8531183

Ward said the impact of bleaching had been extensive across 16 sites that she visited in the reef’s southern section, affecting coral species that had usually been resistant to bleaching. Some coral had started to die, a process that usually takes weeks or months after bleaching occurs.

“I feel devastated,” she said. “I’ve been working on the reef since 1992 but this [event], I’m really struggling with.”

As do I Dr. Ward, with ever election result reinforcing the deveststation of the orthodoxy and the disregard my fellow citizens have for a livable biosphere.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14798220

https://streetartutopia.com/2024/04/23/the-sea-starts-here-dont-litter/

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/environment@beehaw.org/t/803634

Three new levels added by US Coral Reef Watch after ‘extreme’ unprecedented heat, with highest alert warning of ‘near complete mortality’

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/environment@beehaw.org/t/704516

A program in the United Arab Emirates is growing corals native to the Persian Gulf that have evolved to withstand high temperatures.