I learned many things from Kristen Marhaver's TED talks video on "Why I still have hope for coral reefs". In her video she explained why corals in the Pacific Ocean have been dying at an alarming rate, particularly from bleaching brought on by increased water temperatures. In her video she states, "This is happening over an unbelievable scale. 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. Reefs in the Pacific are in a nosedive right now, and no one knows how bad it's going to get."Kristen says it is not too late to act, if corals are given time, stable temperatures and strong protection, corals there have shown the ability to survive and…show more content… Corals die because of climate change, the ocean water gets hot during the summer and other times of year that the animal can not function normally. These animals spit out its colored algae and the tissue that is left usually starves to death and rots away, then later own the skeletons are overgrown by algae.She also explains that if we start now trying to save the climate we can save corals and coral reefs. She says in her TED talk that, "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. This is what I study in my research. 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." I learned that corals deserve to be saved for many reasons. She states, "I never knew what a coral could do when it was given a chance to thrive. 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.Some will be ragged on the edge, some will be beautiful.
