Pinatubos and corals

1996/01/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Ekologia

The explosion of the Pinatubo volcano had and will continue to affect more than expected in the coming years. The explosion occurred in 1991 and, as we have seen recently, its consequences have reached the coast of the Red Sea. A group of Israeli researchers said that the heat resulting from the explosion spread along with lava through the surface of the sea and that corals that were hundreds of kilometers from the place where the explosion occurred have also been affected.

According to these data, the heat generated by the explosion has occurred mainly in the last two years. The heat generated by the volcano completely destroyed 20% of the corals around the Gulf of Rota and the rest was in a very serious situation. In fact, the indiscriminate proliferation of aquatic foods has been produced by heat and there has been a predominance of salinity that corals cannot bear.