New Hope for Coral Reefs

These past few years, there has been much concern about coral reefs around the world, and understandably. Rising temperatures, a greater concentration of CO2 in the waters, and increased polution have taken a great toll on coral reefs around the world.
Until recently, there has been major alarm and little hope for these underwater forests. But a new look at the waters around the Galapagos Islands have revealed three species of coral that had not been known to exist before and one that scientists had thought to have died out in a savage El Nino a few years before. These discoveries give new hope to those protecting the coral reef and proof that the reefs might not be as suseptable to changing conditions as was previously thought.
For more information and images of the new coral species, visit guardian.co.uk at
httm://www.guardian.co.uk/enviroment/2009/sep/09/coral-new-species-galapagos

-bexchada