Taking to social media platform X, Ramesh wrote, “Another day, another revelation of how the Modi Government has bulldozed the Great Nicobar Mega Infra Project through due process. Now we learn that official maps of the island have been airbrushed to remove corals from the map.”
No one knows exactly what that will do to the creatures and plants and other living things that depend on healthy ocean waters.
Forecasts show that coral reef eco-systems around the globe are likely to become functionally degraded by 2050, if the goals of the Paris Agreement are not met.
On an annual basis, coral reefs release their gametes (reproductive cells) simultaneously. This phenomenon is most likely prompted by the right phase of the lunar and solar cycles as well as optimum water temperature.
There were startling colours here just a year ago, a dazzling array of life beneath the waves. Now this Maldivian…
