The scientific fraternity working on climate changes across the world and its consequences are left worried with the predicted devastation it can bring upon the global ecosystem.
Researchers and conservationists for long have been warning of the plunder the rising sea temperatures can lush on the marine ecosystem, especially the corals and the reefs. Many such studies of devastation have also been predicted for the Great Barrier Reef and the impact it can have on the region’s tourism sector.
But, a new study brings hope both for the marine tourism sectors as well as the environmentalists. The study claims that the Reef may survive the changing climate or the rising temperatures much better than what was previously thought.
The reefs themselves house their saviors — some microscopic algae. These algae protect the corals from the oceans’ fluctuating temperature.
Researchers at the Australian Institute of Marine Science in Townsville have used DNA analysis to reveal the several types of algae thriving inside the corals that provide nutrients with the increase in temperatures.
The new find have defied the Greenpeace and the World Wild Fund for Nature’s claim that over-fishing, land-based pollution, coral bleaching along with increased sea temperatures are adversely destroying the reefs.
Along with the claim, the new study also safe the $5.8 billion the WWF suggested for use in the effort to reduce CO2 emissions specifically to save the reef.
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