{"id":9779,"date":"2011-06-28T09:54:56","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T13:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=9779"},"modified":"2011-06-28T09:54:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T13:54:56","slug":"buying-time-for-coral-reefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/06\/buying-time-for-coral-reefs","title":{"rendered":"Buying Time for Coral Reefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9781\" style=\"margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px;\" title=\"reef-diver\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/reef-diver.jpg\" alt=\"Diver\" width=\"242\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/reef-diver.jpg 242w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/reef-diver-150x92.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/>Stopping people fishing around Caribbean coral reefs by designating them legally protected marine reserves could help some of them survive the effects of a changing climate by more than 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the conclusion of a study to find out how best to protect  coral reefs as coral bleaching events and hurricanes get more frequent.<\/p>\n<p>Coral  reefs are some of the world&#8217;s richest and most diverse habitats,  hosting around 25 per cent of all known marine life in just a quarter of  a per cent of the Earth&#8217;s oceans.<\/p>\n<p>The trouble is they don&#8217;t cope  well with even small increases in sea temperature: a rise of just one  degree Celsius above average for a few weeks is enough to kill off 95  per cent of individual corals, becoming what scientists call &#8216;bleached&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>But researchers found that protecting the fish that live around Caribbean coral reefs could extend the life of some reefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stopping people fishing around Caribbean coral reefs by designating them legally protected marine reserves could help some of them survive the effects of a changing climate by more than 50 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[100,76,39],"class_list":["post-9779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-caribbean-2","tag-environment-2","tag-fishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}