Tahiti's rare coral reef fuels biodiversity amid climate change

Scientists have discovered a rare coral reef off the coast of Tahiti. Despite global warming, this stretch of sea in the South Pacific has kept its underwater biodiversity thriving.

Al Jazeera's Leah Harding reports.


#Tahiti #ClimateChange

[aliwright]

Thank goodness there may still be some areas unhurt by environmental threat...makes me even more determined to get this worldwide pollution stopped..before it's too late for our kids to experience a healthy world💚🌎💙🙌

[AHgaming]

Maybe we shouldn’t dump so much waste in the ocean and we wouldn’t have these problems? Just a thought.

[Healitnow]

I hope this helps!
Here are some suggestions.
1. Start using soda fountains where you get your personal reusable bottle filled, then ban sodas, juices, and water in plastic bottles. This technology alone would save possibly billions of tons in waste and is already used all over.
2. Go back to using wax paper for wrapping sandwiches as this will eventually go back to nature. Ban plastic sandwich bags.
3. Grocery stores should only be allowed to offer cloth, or back to nature plastic bags for customers that forget their own.
4. Solar, wind, and water based electrical power generation should all be developed before any other less Eco friendly sources would be allowed.
5. Now buildings can be built at any level without using wood, we should convert all housing and other construction to these products, and stop cutting down trees.
6. We must start buying electric vehicles from bikes to cars, pickups, and SUV's. Also get solar panels on your vehicle. Even if it only gets you a few miles per day it all adds up to that much less pollution from coal and nuclear power generation stations.
7. All maritime vessels should be fully equipped with solar panels and/or bladeless turbines that would help supplement or replace the power used from diesel generators. If a large vessel becomes totally free of polluting fuels great, but in the meantime any percentage we can reduce should be done.
Now also use wind power including the use of a big free floating large air sail, and maybe regular masts and sails. Now use these to reduce even the electricity needed, making solar and wind recharging more likely without diesel.
8. With solar, water, and wind generated power getting cheaper, and with batteries now available with much better storage capacities, and at much cheaper prices than before, we must all convert our homes and shops. This will stop massive amounts of coal and nuclear pollution along with the diesel used to mine and transport it.
9. Build huge skyscraper style buildings all over for farming only, and then convert much of the agriculture into aquaponics, and hydroponics, then grow food products on all floors. This would allow multiple crops to be grown in the same buildings year round. These buildings will have a 24/7/365 regulated indoor climate creating way more food yield per area of land, per year. Conversion to this new way of growing should one day replace most land use for food production, then we can let some areas go back to nature. This is more than is possible with todays natural growth, due to seasonal considerations and the fact the earth has only has one floor to grow on.
Since available area for agriculture is almost used up, we must make more somehow, and upward or underground are the only two ways I can think of.
10. This is very important. WE MUST immediately set a population cap on earth and start imposing a one child law on all areas over that amount of density. In short the biggest threat to our existence is the massive consumption of resources to support us all. We need a one child law world wide, that is automatic once this density is reached. It must be enforced.
11. We all must vote Green world wide before it is too late. Look around and see all the weather getting ever more erratic as we continue to pollute. In a very few years it will be too late. Voting Green now is something we all can do at every level, in every election, in every part of the world. This will make a difference, as it will not only get concerned people in elected positions, but will scare politicians from other parties into getting greener in order to stay elected.
Above all please remember this, a mass shift in voting is one thing that will get much attention in political circles.

[ABStravel]

_Greeting from bali island, we're indonesian volcano & nationalpark tour organiser_ 🌅

[SaveMoneySavethePlanet]

Is there any chance that we can get samples and transplant them to other “twilight zones” around the rest of the ocean?

I get that the root cause here is pollution and we need to find a way to stop it, but every day I become a little more convinced that we’re going to need some form of ocean planting activity. Kind of like how we’re trying to plant a bunch of trees right now. Maybe we should plant this coral too?

Or would planting seaweed still give us more “bang for our buck?”

[phyllisbirks]

Hope it's not destroyed for profit!

[islamicvideos]

*Who is biggest lover of Mohammad (saw) ?*

[michealodey]

Wow, our planet earth is a beautiful place for living things to exist forever, so sad wicked humans ruining the earth 🤦 making it uncomfortable to live... thanks for the information through the video like this, please more awareness

[radman]

Don't most reef biomes subsist between the surface and 15 meters depth because of loss of sunlight at depths greater than that? Finding 3km of a nearly mono-corral reef at 30 meters is not going to go far while 1429 km of the Great Barrier reef are as good as dead. Why the hype for something this insignificant? Maybe start telling people the truth for a change? You know, before it's over? What could it hurt at this point?

[mizanthrope]

Another creation dying out because of man, not a very good steward of the Earth.