I know a lot about the selective breeding of purebred cats! I never thought that I would read about the selective breeding of coal reefs but it’s become necessary as a stopgap measure to try and allow coral reefs to survive the rising temperatures in …
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Coral reefs are made up of marine organisms which reproduce externally by releasing their reproductive cells, namely sperm and eggs, into the water at the same time. The reproductive process is dependent upon the natural rhythms of daytime and night-time and other environmental and biological …
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Researchers have said that global warming has resulted in marine heatwaves which has killed half the corals of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia over the past 25 years. Although all sizes of coral have been affected since the 1990s, the larger species such as …
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Laboratory grown coral has been successfully transplanted into the sea where they have survived and it is hoped that they will develop and expand to repair coral reefs damaged by years of disease, pollution and the warming of the oceans. To be clear, corals are …
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