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- 1Corals Face Existential Threat as Super El Niño Heats Oceans●Corals Face an Existential Threat as the Super El Niño Heats Up
Conservation groups warn that the strong El Niño event is pushing ocean temperatures to levels that threaten coral reefs worldwide, with warming waters causing mass bleaching that corals may not survive. Environmental commentators describe the situation as an existential threat to reef ecosystems, which support roughly a quarter of marine life and protect coastlines.
- 2Two million tyres dumped to build a reef became an ecological disaster●On a site the size of 27 football fields, 2 million of these were dropped in the ocean to create an artificial reef – instead, it became a disaster
A failed artificial reef project saw around two million tyres dumped across an underwater area the size of 27 football fields, in the hope of attracting marine life. Instead, the tyres shifted in currents, crushed coral and scattered across the seabed, damaging the surrounding ecosystem. The story is being highlighted as a cautionary tale about large-scale ocean interventions gone wrong.