The Global warming and the U.A.E

U.A.E and other Gulf countries are known as producing countries for oil and may be the Gulf countries are the biggest user for petrol not only sail it. It has been shown reacently that the UAE’s coral riefes are being effected by the global warming and by our over use of petrol because of its abundance in the UAE . We consume a lot of petrol,and this is very bad news for our environment. likely refuge. The Arabian Gulf has recently experienced high-frequency recurrences of temperature-related bleaching (1996, 1998, 2002). First evidence may suggest that bleaching patterns in corals changed due to phenotypic adaptation after two strong bleaching events in rapid succession, because Acropora, which during the 1996 and 1998 events always bleached first and suffered heaviest mortality, bleached less than all other corals in 2002 at Sir Abu Nuair and recovered at Jebel Ali and Ras Hasyan.

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