{"id":21375,"date":"2024-03-09T12:46:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T07:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21375"},"modified":"2025-10-11T12:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:45:13","slug":"coral-reef-watch-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/coral-reef-watch-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Coral Reef Watch Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Coral Reef Watch<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0free online tool that provides a\u00a0global analysis of sea surface temperature (SST) and outlooks to\u00a0identify coral reefs that are at\u00a0risk of bleaching.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is offering the world&#8217;s only global early-warning system of coral reef ecosystem environmental changes.<\/li>\n<li>It remotely monitors conditions that can cause\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/coral-bleaching\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u>coral bleaching<\/u><\/a>, disease, and death; delivers information and early warnings in near real-time to our extensive and diverse user community; it uses operational climate forecasts to provide outlooks of stressful environmental conditions on coral reefs worldwide.<\/li>\n<li>Its products are primarily\u00a0sea surface temperature (SST)-based but also incorporate light and ocean color, among other variables.<\/li>\n<li>It has been using remote sensing, modeled, and in situ data to operate a decision support system to help all stakeholders around the world prepare for and respond to coral reef ecosystem stressors, predominantly resulting from climate change and warming of the Earth&#8217;s oceans.<\/li>\n<li>This online tool was developed by\u00a0National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key facts about Corals<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Corals are\u00a0marine invertebrates or animals not possessing a spine.<\/li>\n<li>Each coral is called a polyp and thousands of such polyps live together to form a colony, which grows when polyps multiply to make copies of themselves.<\/li>\n<li>Corals share\u00a0a symbiotic relationship with single-celled\u00a0algae called zooxanthellae.<\/li>\n<li>The algae provides the coral with food and nutrients, which they make through photosynthesis, using the sun\u2019s light.<\/li>\n<li>In turn, the corals give the algae a home and key nutrients. The zooxanthellae also give corals their bright colour.<\/li>\n<li>Australia\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-great-barrier-reef\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Great Barrier Reef<\/u><\/a> is the world\u2019s largest reef system stretching across 2,300 km.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Also Read:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/fourth-mass-coral-reef-bleaching\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Fourth Mass Coral Reef Bleaching<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Coral Bleaching?<\/h3>\n<p>It happens when corals experience stress in their environment due to changes in temperature, pollution or high levels of ocean acidity.Under stressed conditions, the zooxanthellae or food-producing algae living inside coral polyps start producing reactive oxygen species, which are not beneficial to the corals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/environment\/fourth-global-mass-coral-bleaching-great-barrier-reef-severely-affected-corals-seen-dying-94913\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fourth global mass coral bleaching? 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