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Coral conservation. Combat the source not the symptoms

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[1] Many projects are rolled out to help recovering the dead or bleached coral and repopulate the reefs with the newcomers which are more resistant to heat and acid waters. Some solutions endorse replanting of coral other focus on hunting and killing the Crown of Thorns starfish [1] others look for more adaptabile spieces of coral that could replace the dead corals. Though the main circulated source, among researchers, what cause death of corals are bleaching. During bleaching the coral will expel the algae (zooxanthellae) living in their tissues causing the coral to turn completely white [2] . [2]  As the algae contribute to 90% of their food the result of bleaching event is starvation to death without the symbiosis of the algae. Another reason is acidic water. As seawater gets more acidic with more carbon dioxide dissolved in it, these creatures might have a harder time making their skeletons and shells [3] . Of course the main reason why bleaching occur is increas...

3 months visa free Malaysia

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Only papers and plastic [1] Generosity of the place named Malaysia allows to my passport 3 months visa free stay. That is awesome if I don't count that permission is for my paper identity document and not for me as a human. The only passport which can't get in to Malaysia is Israel. Strange rules and laws people invent to limit the documents that people hold. I do have two passports one is Romanian and the other one could be Israelian, then my Israelian paper document wouldn't pass the place called Malaysia but the Romanian passport is exempt from this law and could easily have 3 months free entry stay. Bewilderment!? Thus the person itself don't have authority over his identity papers rather it is opposite. Though the human is much stronger than the identity paper and could in seconds burn it or tore it or just throw it away in the bin it still have to play and act as is written in the passport. It is extremely narrow visioned and purely racialism approach from t...