Could Coral Really Survive This?

The article "Corals Surviving Ocean's Pollution" by many organization research on December 2nd can be found on Science Daily:http://www.sciencedaily.com

Coral is a living just like us human beings or your pet dog. The fact that it had survived the pollution along the Gulf of California and the coast of the Mexican Pacific was amazing to many including scientists. This article tells how corals are able to adapt to some circumstances even after many biologists thought not. From head of the research, Eduardo Balart Páez said "The first models indicated that the coral reefs would disappear midcentury, but our study reveals that corals are adapting to the ocean's acidification that has increased since the industrial revolution". It is said that it is unlike many other marine species to adapt nowadays but this coral has proved us wrong.

Samples of this coral aged at 22 years were taken to be observed. The biologists have found that the acidification in the oceans are stunting the corals growth but not so much that we need to worry about right now. As said by Balart Páez "This marine organisms are healthy, for the moment, because of a bigger energetic expense given by a genetic adaptation, however as the acidification levels rise there can be a disturbance in the sexual proportions". He is saying that this specie is okay for now but could be endangered in the long run if this world continues to go along as they are now. The impact was different from males and females but not as dramatically as you would think.The studies showed that there would need to be more research done in order to fully know what is going to happen to certain coral species.

I believe that this article can come as good or bad considering what part you take. The good would be many coral species fighting off the pollution from the ocean waters, but that pollution could get to them in a matter of time. As said before, there would need to be more research over time to analyze the growth and protection of the corals. The studies helped biologists find out more information about this marine specie and could learn more with more research and studies.

First I would like to start off by saying that we should try our best to not pollute anything especially the oceans on our world. There are many procedures that need to be held out to clean the oceans and it can take many years to completely eliminate the pollution in oceans. Pollution in the water like oil breaks can kill many species if not taken care of properly. It is not that hard to recognize what is happening around you and people need to take in to consideration that they could kill many organisms by one foolish act.This article gave a lot of good information on how biologists do their research and how they analyze their work. It gave an insight on how scientists all around the world use common language and think about the same as anyone else would.

This reminds me of how we were learning about acid rain and how that could participate into the ocean and be part of the problem the coral's growth is stunting slowly. The pollution could get evaporated into the air if not cleaned up in time and pollute somewhere else in the world. Overall the pollution in the world needs to stop.