Soft corals are melting away because of Global Warming.

Researchers say that the soft corals are melting away because of Global Warming. You might say, we're not the ones that are destroying the corals, it's global warming. If you could only see what we always do in daily life. Think again. Global warming is caused by us! Our actions that leads to global warming and global warming- makes soft corals melt away.
Environmental stress, says Benayahu, is damaging the symbiotic relationship between soft corals and the microscopic symbiotic algae living in their tissues. There is no doubt that global warming is to blame, warns the marine biologist, explaining that this symbiotic relationship is key for the survival of most soft corals.
What are soft corals? Why are they important?
Soft corals help maintain the health and balance of reef ecosystems and provide protection to numerous animals such as “Nemo”, the famous clown fish from the Walt Disney movie. They are also a rich and promising source of life-saving drugs against cancer and deadly infectious diseases.
It;s way too late now. There is a huge gap in our knowledge of soft corals in the reef environment, and with the rate of extinction, we have lost certain species forever.
If soft corals are gone, animals such as the clown fish will not be able to escape from its predators and the species ( clown fish) will also be nearing the deadline - extinction- and if they're gone, lots more will follow.
We may never recover certain therapeutic drugs, and humans could not live with a wide-spread extinction of marine life, he points out. Life as we know it would not be able to exist if the marine environment, an important producer of oxygen, continues to follow this course.
Unlike their harder brethren, soft corals have no stony calcified outer skeleton to protect them. When they die, they are gone for good, leaving no trace of their existence. Where soft corals were once found in about 50-60 percent of Prof. Benayahu’s study sites around the globe, a few years later, he found out that only about 5 percent remain.
People. All these starts with us. Our actions caused this. We started this. And it will also only begin with our actions to prevent corals from going into extinction.
Source: Science daily
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071112105938.htm