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    Forests of rare coral discovered off South Florida

    South Florida, among the crack $#@!s, chicano pimps and homeless shanty towns, go figure.

    http://touch.sun-sentinel.com/#secti.../p2p-82415701/

    A surprise discovery along the South Florida coast has revealed dense thickets of a species of coral thought to be disappearing from the region's reefs.

    More than 38 acres of staghorn coral has been found in patches on the reefs from northern Miami-Dade to northern Broward counties, in what scientists call a rare piece of good news for a species that has sustained severe declines, largely due to disease.
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    That is good news.
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    Let's keep is a secret.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nic34 View Post
    Let's keep is a secret.
    Fracking trucks are already en route.
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    That's depressing....
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    Quote Originally Posted by nic34 View Post
    That's depressing....
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    Didn't Ross Perot have contractors blow a hole though a coral reef so he could have access to a private Island?

    A construction crew working for Ross Perot blew up part of a coral reef without first getting a permit, enabling him to bring his yacht closer to his vacation home in Bermuda, Time magazine reported Sunday.

    Bermuda's Department of the Environment had ruled against Perot's plan to build a dock and boathouse at one of his houses there in 1986 because of the dredging required to bring his yacht closer to shore, Time said.
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    It must be a result of the Cuba deal.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Didn't Ross Perot have contractors blow a hole though a coral reef so he could have access to a private Island?
    Ross, a man of the people.

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    After Bleaching, Florida's Coral Reefs Now Face Mysterious Disease...

    Battered By Bleaching, Florida's Coral Reefs Now Face Mysterious Disease
    May 15, 2018 • Florida's coral reefs are being decimated by a mysterious disease. It comes after years of warming waters have bleached coral reefs around the world, leaving them weakened.
    At Mote Marine Lab's Center for Coral Reef Research and Restoration in the Florida Keys, Joey Mandara is like a baby sitter. But instead of children he tends to thousands of baby corals, growing in large, shallow tanks called raceways. Mote has been doing this work for five years, raising corals from embryos into adult colonies, then planting them on Florida's reefs. Now, the emergence of a new, debilitating coral disease makes his work more important than ever. In one raceway, Mandara says fragments of brain coral have grown quickly in this controlled environment. "The brain coral were eight fragments," he says. "And over time, they've grown out and have now fused into each other, becoming one coral that will hopefully over time become sexually mature."


    Florida's coral reefs, already bleached by years of warming ocean waters, are being further battered by a mysterious disease.

    Mote lab's science director Erinn Muller calls such progress "our beacon of hope." Around the world, coral reefs are facing trouble. Coral bleaching, due in part to rising ocean temperatures, has stressed reefs, leaving them weakened and susceptible to disease. Now, in Florida, scientists are struggling to combat a mysterious disease that's threatening the future of the world's third largest coral reef. In just four years, the so-far unidentified disease has already had a dramatic impact on Florida's reef tract, which extends some 360 miles down the state's Atlantic coast. Muller says it appears to be a bacterial disease, and for about half of the state's species of coral it's deadly. "When they're affected by this, the tissue sloughs off the skeleton," she says. "And we see that once a coral is infected, it usually kills the entire coral, sometimes within weeks. And it doesn't seem to stop."

    A 'local extinction' that's on the move

    William Precht was one of the first scientists to spot the outbreak and the impact it was having on corals. In 2014, he was hired by the state to monitor the health of reefs off the port of Miami, where a dredging project was underway. He saw the disease move from one patch of coral to another. Precht says it's proved especially deadly for species of brain and star coral, which form the foundation for many reefs. In some areas now, he says almost all of those corals are dead. "This is essentially equivalent to a local extinction, an ecological extirpation of these species locally," he says. "And when you go out and swim on the reefs of Miami-Dade County today, it would be a very rare chance encounter that you'd see some of these three or four species." Scientists believe ocean currents help spread the disease. Since it was first discovered, it's moved north, affecting reefs all the way up to the St. Lucie inlet. It's now moving south, through the Florida Keys. A large number of researchers are working to tackle the disease on many fronts. Some are using DNA analysis to try to identify the pathogens involved. Muller of Mote Marine says others are looking for ways to stop the disease from spreading.


    Erinn Muller is science director at the Mote Marine Lab in the Florida Keys. She says the lab's work to raise healthy corals is a "beacon of hope" for profoundly damaged reefs.

    "Anything from... looking at chlorine-laced epoxy as an antiseptic, and even looking at how antibiotics interact with the disease," she says. "Because if it is bacterial, then antibiotics would be a way to stop it." This disease outbreak is the latest blow to a reef system that has been stressed and battered by decades of development, poor water quality and rising sea temperatures. After a long decline in Florida, coral reefs have been decimated, leaving too few species to successfully reproduce and rebuild the population on their own. That's why Muller believes the best hope now is to raise healthy corals in the lab and transplant them onto reefs. "We're really at a critical juncture right now, where we have corals left on the reef," she says. "Before we lose more corals, now is the time to start making a change." Mote Marine Lab hopes to plant 35,000 of its lab-raised corals onto reefs in the Keys this year. Muller says so far, corals raised in the lab have shown resistance to the mystery disease, giving scientists hope they may yet be able to save Florida's reefs.

    https://www.npr.org/2018/05/15/61125...erious-disease

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