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‘Like wildfires underwater’: Worst summer on record for Great Barrier Reef as coral die-off sweeps planet | CNN (www.cnn.com)
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The corals are casualties of surging global temperatures which have smashed historical records in the past year — caused mainly by fossil fuels driving up carbon emissions and accelerated by the El Niño weather pattern, which heats ocean temperatures in this part of the world.

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[-] Kalkaline@leminal.space 3 points 6 months ago

It would be interesting to see if a CRISPR type technology could make coral reefs more resilient to climate change.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 6 points 6 months ago

The difficulty is likely deciding which genes to turn on and which ones to turn off.

What scientists are doing instead is taking corals that are demonstrating heat-resistance, propagating them in labs, and trying to introduce them back into the wild; it's a kind of directed evolution. The difficulty is lack of funding and keeping up with climate change.

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