Tag: corals
Freezing adult corals could help ensure they survive a changing climate
Like something out of science fiction, small colonies of mature corals have been safely frozen and revived for the first time, though more work will be needed to ensure their long-term survival, researchers report August 23 in Nature Communications. Freezing chunks of living corals for safekeeping — or cryopreserving them — could save them from extinction as the oceans heat up and acidify from human-caused climate change (SN: 8/9/23).
Researchers had already cryopreserved and revived coral larvae
The parable of the last corals on Earth – POLITICO
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For three decades the Israeli scientist Maoz Fine waited for the corals around his home on the Red Sea to succumb to global warming and turn a horrible shade of white.
Instead, he discovered they have a superpower.
In 2013, Fine, who runs a research center in the Israeli port of Eilat, published a scientific paper reporting that the corals across a large sweep of the Red Sea appeared