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The #Aitutaki #lagoon is the reason why tourists come to #Aitutaki in the Cook Islands. Spend your day enjoying the #turquoise waters, white sand beaches and sandbanks and #snorkeling among #colorful and #healthy #corals and #fish. https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Aitutaki-Beaches/#lagoon

The #Aitutaki #lagoon is the reason why tourists come to #Aitutaki in the Cook Islands. Spend your day enjoying the #turquoise waters, white sand beaches and sandbanks and #snorkeling among #colorful and #healthy #corals and #fish. https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Aitutaki-Beaches/#lagoon

▪ Major taxonomic bias especially towards #corals 🪸

We loved out #Moorea #island #tour by #boat . Our guide was #singing , showed us to open #coconuts and brought us to fantastic #swim and #snorkel spots with #stingrays and #sharks among #colorful #corals and #fish . https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Moorea-Snorkeling/#islandtour

@jripley

It gets even more terrifying if you consider the affected nature. Not many animals or plants are heatresistant above a certain "used" bandwidth of temperature. Not even #camels
The ecosystems of oceans are already reacting, not only bc decreasing oxygene level in seawater. They are more fragile than ecosystems on land. #corals #krill ...
If that base of foodchains starts to collapse ...
...as we can already notice following certain (science) reports.😱

Hawaii’s corals were exposed to polluted water and lost energy needed to survive warming seas, with the same damage seen in two very different species

Corals (Representative image) Human activity is changing coral reefs in ways that go far beyond what we can…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #AU #Australia #Climatechange #Corals #hawaiiinstituteofmarinebiology #Hawaii’scorals #Science #universityofhawaii #zachquinlan
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/814506/

Hawaii’s corals were exposed to polluted water and lost energy needed to survive warming seas, with the same damage seen in two very different species

Corals (Representative image) Human activity is changing coral reefs in ways that go far beyond what we can…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #CA #Canada #climatechange #corals #hawaiiinstituteofmarinebiology #Hawaii’scorals #Science #universityofhawaii #zachquinlan
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/816501/

Hawaii’s corals were exposed to polluted water and lost energy needed to survive warming seas, with the same damage seen in two very different species

Corals (Representative image) Human activity is changing coral reefs in ways that go far beyond what we can…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #ClimateChange #Corals #environment #hawaiiinstituteofmarinebiology #Hawaii’scorals #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom #universityofhawaii #zachquinlan
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/703434/

The #lagoon tour in #BoraBora was the best in French #Polynesia. We learned how to weave hats from #coconut leaves, saw fantastic spots to #swim and #snorkel with lots of #sharks , #stingrays and #colorful #fish and #corals . https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Bora-Bora-Snorkeling/#lagoon

#Temae Beach is the best #beach on #Moorea . It is a 3,000 ft (900 m) long and has excellent #snorkeling with lots of #colorful #fish and colorful and healthy #corals. This was our favorite beach on Moorea. How did you like it? https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Moorea-Beaches/#temae

@plazi_species
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In J.R.R. Tolkien’s High Elven language (Quenya), #Laurinquë is the name of a mythical, low-hanging tree with clusters of yellow flowers known as the "golden rain," while #Elenya translates to "stellar" or "of the stars." It's an incredibly fitting name for a bright yellow tree-like structure living in the pitch-black "space" of the deep ocean!

#corals
#Tolkien
#Elven

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🪐 A Hidden Geeky Nod?

While the scientific paper describes its genetics as a sister lineage to the Eunicellidae family, the authors gave it a beautifully poetic name. The official title of their paper is "A coral among stars...".

#corals

@plazi_species
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Structure: They form large, fan-like (irregular-flabellate) shapes with dense, irregular side-branching.

Polyps: The coral features conspicuously elongated, tubular polyps arranged all around its branches that can partially retract into dome-shaped mounds.

#corals

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Depth: The specimens were collected using the ROV SuBastian at depths ranging between 360 to 529 meters (roughly 1,180 to 1,735 feet) in cold waters hovering around 8°C to 11°C.

🧬 Physical Characteristics Vibrant Appearance: When alive, these coral colonies are a striking, bright yellow. In the photo you can see the fan-like yellow Laurinque elenya colony anchored proudly alongside a pinkish-red neighbor.

#corals

@plazi_species
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Laurinque elenya (The "Starry Golden Rain" Coral)
This deep-sea octocoral is such a unique find that scientists didn't just discover a new species—they had to establish an entirely new genus (Laurinque) and an entirely new family (Laurinqueidae) to categorize it.

📍 Where Was It Found?
Location: It was discovered living on deep-sea seamounts off the coast of Costa Rica, specifically around the insular shelf of Isla del Coco and the Costa Rican Pacific margin.

#corals

1-Jul-2026
Scientists discover how #algae colonized #corals, jumpstarting the growth of the world’s reefs
Was the #symbiosis between algae and coral the result of algae parasitizing coral?

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1134274

#science #evolution #ecology #marineBiology

The #Aitutaki #lagoon is the reason why tourists come to #Aitutaki in the Cook Islands. Spend your day enjoying the #turquoise waters, white sand beaches and sandbanks and #snorkeling among #colorful and #healthy #corals and #fish. https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Aitutaki-Beaches/#lagoon

As #globalwarming threatens #corals, scientists search for reefs that can take the heat
Since 2023, record-breaking marine #heatwaves swept through tropics. More than 80% of the worlds reefs have been impacted in at least 83 countries and territories. Corals have been so stressed by the extreme temperatures, they’ve expelled the tiny algae living inside their tissues that provide them with food and their brilliant hues, leaving them pale, ghostly and struggling to survive
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/as-global-warming-threatens-corals-scientists-search-for-reefs-that-can-take-the-heat/

We loved out #Moorea #island #tour by #boat . Our guide was #singing , showed us to open #coconuts and brought us to fantastic #swim and #snorkel spots with #stingrays and #sharks among #colorful #corals and #fish . https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Moorea-Snorkeling/#islandtour

The #Aitutaki #lagoon is the reason why tourists come to #Aitutaki in the Cook Islands. Spend your day enjoying the #turquoise waters, white sand beaches and sandbanks and #snorkeling among #colorful and #healthy #corals and #fish. https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Aitutaki-Beaches/#lagoon

The #lagoon tour in #BoraBora was the best in French #Polynesia. We learned how to weave hats from #coconut leaves, saw fantastic spots to #swim and #snorkel with lots of #sharks , #stingrays and #colorful #fish and #corals . https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Bora-Bora-Snorkeling/#lagoon

The #Aitutaki #lagoon is the reason why tourists come to #Aitutaki in the Cook Islands. Spend your day enjoying the #turquoise waters, white sand beaches and sandbanks and #snorkeling among #colorful and #healthy #corals and #fish. https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Aitutaki-Beaches/#lagoon

#Trees, #grasses, #corals, and #oysters are foundational to the structure of an #ecosystem while they are alive. But new research shows that when they die — due to extreme events like storms, wildfires, or marine heatwaves — the physical remains of these species continue shaping the ecosystem.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1130586

#science #ecology #foundationSpecies #habitat

Group Work
On the labor, love, and strange multiplicity of coral

"Corals are in fact three things in one: something of an animal, something of a plant, and something of a stone. They make individuality seem specious, interconnection and collectivity the peeled-back reality."

https://orionmagazine.org/article/group-work/

#Corals #Marine

RE: https://mstdn.social/@compoundchem/116716533544196361

The #climatecrisis has multiple negative effects on the maritime #biosphere.

The rise in temperature in the sea gets most attention, but #oceanacidification is a major risk as well to the #maritime #ecology - threatening the stability of the #foodchain in the world's #oceans.

Within this century the skeletons of maritime organisms, such as #corals, will be at risk to erode faster then they can be sustained. This will also affect #plankton which forms the basis of the maritime #food chain.

After extreme thermal stress and runoff caused mass soft coral "slumping" in 2024, researchers are monitoring South Korea's Jeju Island closely.

Widespread die-offs have stalled so far in 2026, but an upcoming Super El Niño threatens a repeat of the ecological damage.

Elizabeth Claire Alberts reports for #Mongabay.
https://mongabay.cc/hGwjUC

#Corals #SouthKorea

The #Aitutaki #lagoon is the reason why tourists come to #Aitutaki in the Cook Islands. Spend your day enjoying the #turquoise waters, white sand beaches and sandbanks and #snorkeling among #colorful and #healthy #corals and #fish. https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Aitutaki-Beaches/#lagoon

#Temae Beach is the best #beach on #Moorea . It is a 3,000 ft (900 m) long and has excellent #snorkeling with lots of #colorful #fish and colorful and healthy #corals. This was our favorite beach on Moorea. How did you like it? https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Moorea-Beaches/#temae