Camila Mota

You need that diversity.

And it's not just fish that are impacted.

It's about how the whole ecosystem functions.

And now the whole system has basically fundamentally changed.

It's unclear.

The question would be, how can you rebuild complexity?

And then, of course, incentivize the fish to eat that complexity.

You know, Brazil has been heavily impacted by bleaching as well.

It's a big problem here.

But before we all get too depressed, I do have a good news story about coral reefs.

So Brazilian scientists are teaming up with researchers from elsewhere in the world to see if probiotics could help with coral bleaching.

Their research started at the Red Sea, where they ran a huge pilot test, and now they're trying to scale it up.

That's what I thought, yeah.

And since we love the micro gut money...

Wait till you hear this.

Okay, so just like humans, corals rely on colonies of good bacteria to keep them healthy.

When there's stress, for example, when the water gets warmer, the balance between good and bad bacteria gets disrupted.

And the idea is that beneficial probiotics, so good bacteria, could be applied to help the corals as a temporary medicine until climate change is addressed.

And we can actually help.

The scientists have even hypothesized that visitors could one day buy a probiotic to sprinkle on coral reefs during diving trips.