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Crying about corals is having a moment, guys.
And that's because reefs in the Pacific are losing corals faster than we've ever seen before.
The Northern Great Barrier Reef lost two-thirds of its corals last year over a distance of hundreds of miles, then bleached again this year, and the bleaching stretched further south.
Some reefs lost their corals very quickly.
Some reefs lost their corals more slowly, but kind of ended up in the same place.
There were corals 1,000 years old lined up one after another.
The truth is that even as we lose so many corals, even as we go through this massive coral die-off, some reefs will survive.
Even as we go through bleaching events, more frequent and in more places, some corals will be able to recover.
We had a bleaching event in 2010 in the Caribbean that took off big patches of skin on boulder corals like these.
And as we go through the long, tough and necessary process of stabilizing the climate of planet Earth, some new corals will still be born.
We try to understand how corals make babies, and how those babies find their way to the reef, and we invent new methods to help them survive those early, fragile life stages.
Corals have been living on planet Earth for hundreds of millions of years.
Corals have always been playing the long game, and now so are we.
These corals can be kind of mean, you see, and I have surfing scars to prove that.
In the Seychelles, for example, human activities and climate change have left corals bleached.
When you think of a coral reef, this is what most people think of: these big, hard, elaborate corals, lots of bright, colorful fishes and things.
These are crinoids, sponges, black corals.
Corals are very delicate organisms, and they are devastated by any rise in sea temperatures.
It causes these vast bleaching events that are the first signs of corals of being sick.
The frilly crenulated forms that you see in corals, and kelps, and sponges and nudibranchs, is a form of geometry known as hyperbolic geometry.
So what is this hyperbolic geometry that corals and sea slugs embody?
Our tadpole-like ancestors flitted along ancient coastlines, while their eel-like relatives with gnashing throat teeth swam above the ice-cream cone corals of the first reefs, dodging school-bus-sized krakens and hungry sea scorpions.
So, finally, there were whale-sized fishes, and modern fishes mobbed corals, made gigantic by using their captured algae to eat sunshine.
There's this beautiful bay, lots of soft corals and stomatopods."
What happens is that the corals are a symbiosis, and they have these little algal cells that live inside them.
And the algae give the corals sugar, and the corals give the algae nutrients and protection.
The corals say, "You cheated.
Well, that's what happened in the Indian Ocean during the 1998 El Nino, an area vastly greater than the size of North America and Europe, when 80 percent of all the corals bleached and a quarter of them died.
Here we have the extreme with dead corals, microbial soup and jellyfish.
And where the diver is, this is probably where most of the reefs of the world are now, with very few corals, algae overgrowing the corals, lots of bacteria, and where the large animals are gone.
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