Nov 30, 2015 09:00 PM
http://news.discovery.com/earth/oceans/s...151130.htm
EXCERPT: Scientists are busy breeding a new kind of coral they hope will be able to withstand the harsher conditions predicted of future seas. That's why one woman, Ruth Gates, Director of the Hawai'i Institute of Biology, is working on [...] "super corals" that can withstand the climate change that oceans are already experiencing. Another group, in Australia, is creating "mutt" corals from different robust species to achieve the same result. What's unique about these approaches to coral preservation is that it's like the land-based genetic tinkering that's been done for millennia with livestock and crops....
EXCERPT: Scientists are busy breeding a new kind of coral they hope will be able to withstand the harsher conditions predicted of future seas. That's why one woman, Ruth Gates, Director of the Hawai'i Institute of Biology, is working on [...] "super corals" that can withstand the climate change that oceans are already experiencing. Another group, in Australia, is creating "mutt" corals from different robust species to achieve the same result. What's unique about these approaches to coral preservation is that it's like the land-based genetic tinkering that's been done for millennia with livestock and crops....