It is a good moment, Danon. Just like that article I posted last week about that colony of elm (chestnut?) that they just discovered in Georgia.
Who would think that species of coral would be added to our Endangered Species List? But they have, and you can read more about it at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/22/us/22coral.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
"Rising Ocean Temperatures Threaten Florida's Coral Reef
By RICK LYMAN
Published: May 22, 2006
KEY LARGO, Fla., May 21 ?- If global warming summons images of polar bears clinging to shrinking ice floes, this is its face in the Florida Keys: a sun-dappled stretch of shallows along the turquoise reef line, where scientists painstakingly attach russet polyps of regenerated coral to damaged reefs.
David Lackland, a biologist, caring for coral in a laboratory.
"When I first came here snorkeling, in 1985, it was amazing, the forest of coral was so thick," said Bill Goodwin, a resource manager for the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. "Just look now," he said, gesturing to the few small brown patches amid an elephant's boneyard of skeletal remains at the foot of the Carysfort light tower in the roiling Atlantic waters seven miles off Key Largo.
On May 9, for the first time, two species of Caribbean coral ?- acropora palmata, or elkhorn, and acropora cervicornis, or staghorn ?- were added to the list of threatened species under the federal Endangered Species Act. It was a needed step, say marine biologists and environmentalists who focus on coral, and probably overdue, but just one narrow glimpse at the universe of woes affecting the undersea invertebrates in the Keys, throughout the Caribbean and across the globe."
There is some very fascinating other stuff in that article - about new colonies forming in cooler waters where they have never been before, growing coral in the lab and then putting it out, etc.
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click. Iv'e been outdone.Great thread dannon
and put on a polar fleece sweater - brrrrrrrrr 
