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Scientists have studied in increasing detail the loss of the world's coral reefs, and they have documented with increasing certainty the causes.
Because even in some of these reefs that we probably could have written off long ago, we sometimes see baby corals arrive and survive anyway.
Now in addition to the surfaces, we also study the chemical and microbial signals that attract corals to reefs.
Whatever the cause, we have much more work to do before we can use baby corals to grow or fix or, yes, maybe save coral reefs.
Coral reefs are hardworking animals and plants and microbes and fungi.
But a few made it anyway, despite our best efforts, and now it's time for us to thank them for the work they did and give them every chance they have to raise the coral reefs of the future, their coral babies.
We position them down current from natural reefs so that after spawning, there's areas for them to settle.
As new reefs form, a new world literally starts to evolve, a world that continuously amazes me.
Because as we all know, our reefs are dying, and our oceans are in trouble.
Besides creating over 800 square meters of new habitats and living reef, visitors to the marine park in Cancun now divide half their time between the museum and the natural reefs, providing significant rest for natural, overstressed areas.
So we designed a new set of gear and we're scouring the reefs around the world, looking for fluorescent life.
I pictured big sharks ruling the food chain and saw graceful sea turtles dancing across coral reefs.
They also need these carbonate ions in seawater to make their coral structure in order to build coral reefs.
Now coral reefs support 25 percent of all marine life in the entire ocean.
A scientist in Guam wrote, "I cried right into my mask," seeing the damage on the reefs.
And that's because reefs in the Pacific are losing corals faster than we've ever seen before.
Reefs in the Pacific are in a nosedive right now, and no one knows how bad it's going to get, except ... over in the Caribbean where I work, we've already been through the nosedive.
Reefs there have suffered through centuries of intense human abuse.
And after centuries of ratcheting human pressure, Caribbean reefs met one of three fates.
Some reefs lost their corals very quickly.
Some reefs lost their corals more slowly, but kind of ended up in the same place.
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.
Each of these systems that I showed you brings us closer to having the mathematical and the conceptual tools to create our own versions of collective power, and this can enable many different kinds of future applications, whether you think about robots that build flood barriers or you think about robotic bee colonies that could pollinate crops or underwater schools of robots that monitor coral reefs, or if we reach for the stars and we thinking about programming constellations of satellites.
In the South China Sea, fishermen went out of their way to collect fossilized clamshells by digging through large areas of coral reefs.
With the spotlight on more charismatic marine animals such as the whales and coral reefs, it is easy to forget that other marine life needs our help, too.
It turns out that giant clams have a giant impact on coral reefs.
So when giant clams start to disappear from coral reefs, their absence can serve as an alarm bell for scientists to start paying attention, similar to the canary in a coal mine.
And the ecological benefits of having giant clams on coral reefs are likely to continue only if populations are healthy, making their conservation paramount.
While he was on the "Beagle," he began researching coral reefs.
Even further below, we have the ocean farms and where we tie the island to the ground, we're using biorock to create new reefs to regenerate habitat.
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