As climate change and pollution endanger coral reefs, scientists are deep-freezing corals to repopulate future oceans
Warming events in 2014 and 2015 affected more than 80% of the corals in Hawaii’s Kaneohe Bay. Some species and individuals were resistant to warming, such as the coral on the left. Claire Lager, Smithsonian, CC BY-ND These assisted gene flow studies produced 600 new genetically diverse individuals from threatened elkhorn coral Acropora palmata. By… Read More »