Coral, which is not afraid of warming and water pollution, lives in Kaneohe Bay

The death of coral reefs is a serious concern for ecologists. After all, this is not just a reduction in the number of living organisms, but the disappearance of an entire ecosystem that plays an important role in the life of the ocean and the planet as a whole. The loss of coral reefs is comparable to the loss of equatorial forests or taiga on land. For this reason, scientists from many countries are concerned about the problem of corals and are trying to find ways to save them in the changing climatic parameters and increasing anthropogenic pollution. In this regard, the discovery of unusual corals near the Hawaiian Islands looks like a miracle. They do not suffer from a rise in temperature and were able to adapt to the seemingly impossible level of pollution.

An unusual colony was found off the coast of Oahu - the most populous of the entire archipelago. Here, in the waters of Kaneohe Bay, biologists discovered corals that demonstrate miracles of survival. The fact is that the environmental conditions in the Kaneohe Bay basin cannot be called favorable at all. The most densely populated island has a significant negative impact on the environment, including the surrounding ocean through the discharge of wastewater. According to environmentalists, precisely because of the intense pollution of the bay in the middle of the last century, more than 90% of the living corals died here. But the most surprising is that after the authorities took a series of measures to reduce discharges, the coral reef fully recovered and occupied the entire former habitat. At the same time, it cannot be said that the waters of the bay became absolutely clean and freed from anthropogenic impurities, but the corals managed to adapt. This unique adaptive ability was manifested not only in relation to pollution and increase in acidity of water, but also in relation to temperature changes.

It turned out that the corals of Kaneohe Bay do not suffer from an increase in water temperature in the World Ocean, which makes them unique, and also gives a chance to preserve the entire reef ecosystem on a global scale. Even after biologists placed corals in a more aggressive environment, with elevated acidity and temperature, they demonstrated their ability to grow.

The discovery of incredibly hardy corals in the waters of the Pacific Ocean shows how great the variety of adaptive mechanisms of the inhabitants of our planet is. Perhaps, it is thanks to the species from the Kaneohe Gulf that the World Ocean will be able to preserve coral reefs as an ecosystem and survive the adverse period associated with climatic changes on the planet.