What's Destroying Fragile Coral Reefs: Tourists' Sunscreen


	What's Destroying Fragile Coral Reefs: Tourists' Sunscreen

wildcat

2-3-2008 6:27 AM

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coral reefs, sunscreen

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2-3-2008 7:54 AM

Queen_of_liberty

sad...

2-4-2008 8:10 AM

carrerinyes

How very sad. To save our skins we destroy the beautiful coral reefs. Can't we fix this...?

2-4-2008 6:35 PM

syncopath

"here comes the sun .."

2-5-2008 1:56 AM

Brimstone

Clearly someone made the decision, its either; skin cancer or dead coral reefs.

But this is where the economist comes in and puts a its foot in, with new "Coral freindly Sun Block". All the environmently conscience people by it, the companies make millions. Everyone is happy

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 A new study has identified an elusive culprit behind the lethal bleaching of coral reefs worldwide. The popular sunscreens that tourists slather on before a dip in the ocean contains chemicals that quickly kill off fragile reefs.</p> </DIV>
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				<P></P></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/01/scientists-disc.html">Specifically, what researchers found was that four commonly found
sunscreen ingredients have the ability to awaken dormant viruses in the
symbiotic algae called zooxanthellae that live inside reef-building
coral species. The chemicals then cause the viruses to replicate until
their algae hosts explode, spilling viruses into the surrounding
seawater, where they can spread out to infect neighboring coral
communities.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/01/scientists-disc.html">
How could sunscreen make any difference in such a vast ocean? The
amount of sunscreen involved is probably larger than most of us would
guess. An estimated 4,000 to 6,000 metric tons of sunscreen wash off
swimmers bodies annually</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4806361C-0C2D-45C3-BB87-37260EE05495/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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