He has pioneered a form of “coral IVF” that involves capturing millions of spawn from “heat-tolerant” reproductive coral after it floats to the sea surface or, alternatively, surrounding coral that has withstood a bleaching event with a cone-shaped net. The net functions like a huge “coral condom”.
“If you breed from heat-tolerant corals that can survive heat stress in the laboratory, the larvae of those corals also have higher heat tolerance than the larvae of other corals,” said Harrison.
I had wondered whether it was possible to breed heat-tolerant corals. Glad to see that people are working on it.
What good is coral when there’s no plankton? Sorry to be the one if you didn’t know, but civilization as we know it is going to collapse. Live and love your best life.
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