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Can 'super coral' save the Great Barrier Reef?
2016-06-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: As fears mount over the Great Barrier Reef's worst coral bleaching event in recorded history, biotechnologists in Australia are looking at ways to grow "super coral" that is more tolerant of global warming, writes Ian Lloyd Neubauer. Heat-resistant coral is not an artificial construct. The mutation occurs naturally in the remote Kimberley region of north-west Australia, where the world's longest tropical tides create super-heated tide pools where corals have found ways to adapt and survive. "The...
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