Scientists working to save Florida’s ailing reef hope Caribbean coral thriving in hotter water could bring some relief.
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Coral reefs can’t keep up with climate change. So scientists are speeding up evolution
Climate change is heating oceans faster than the world’s coral reefs can handle. So scientists are breeding corals that can withstand hotter temperatures – but only to a point.
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This often-overlooked sea creature may be quietly protecting the planet’s coral reefs
The pickle-shaped bottom feeders may reduce the amount of microbes on the seafloor that could potentially sicken coral, scientists suggest
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Researchers Find Another Threat For New England Corals: Plastic
Boston University biologist Randi Rotjan has been studying coral reefs for more than a decade. A couple years ago, she started to notice tiny bits of plastic “in all of our samples from everywhere,” she says. To understand how corals grow, she decided she was going to have to study how plastic gets into their bodies, how […]