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Pristine coral reefs discovered near Galápagos Islands are thousands of years old and teeming with life

www.livescience.com Pristine coral reefs discovered near Galápagos Islands are thousands of years old and teeming with life

Scientists on a 30-day expedition off the coast of Ecuador have mapped two coral reefs and two seamounts more than 1,000 feet beneath the ocean surface.

BrainWorms @lemm.ee Pristine coral reefs discovered near Galápagos Islands are thousands of years old and teeming with life

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Oh, yay! More stuff for corporations to murder.

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- Was just about to say, I give it a year before some oil company makes an oopsie and kills it all
  
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  Y'all both beat beat me to it: just a spoonful of oil makes coral reef go down.
  
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Pristine? Not for long!

~Humanity

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Aaaand tourists stomped it into rubble

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- "influencers"
  
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Phew, was getting worried that our war against the non-humans would miss a spot

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Exxon/Mobil: "Hold my beer."

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Don't tell people about it!

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That's a bleaching

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except for all the microplastics and actual plastics floating around they're 100% 'pristine'

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Jesus Christ, people can celebrate some good news without frantic doomerisms it seems...

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Dont friggin touch it

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