Beautiful Atoll

This is a New Reef Image sent to us from Margaret from the global hyperbolic crochet coral reef.

Ladies Silurian Atoll by the Institute For Figuring
Photo © IFF 2009, by Francine McDougall.

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Last Thursday Scientists released a report that showed that a section of the reef that was being killed off by global warming has regenerated - Some of the factors assisting the recovery have been isolating this part of the reef from pollution - this was the influuence for our new network name from sundays workshop- hyperbolic pollution.

Have a read of this article about the regeneration as there are interesting new observations on how 'the reef managed "asexual re-growth" from surviving tissue fragments '

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/04/23/great-barrier-reef.html