Growing Climate-Resistant Super Coral | Your Climate | BBC Earth Science

25% of all marine life depends on coral reefs, but they’re declining at a rapid rate. Could the discovery of ‘super corals’, which are able to survive at higher temperatures and with less oxygen, be the solution the world so desperately needs?
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[@MrFossil367ab45gfyth]

Coral is beauty of the sea. Please protect these beautiful gardens of the sea!

[@ronkirk5099]

We might be able to find coral with mutations that allow them to survive in warmer water, but how they deal with increasingly acidic ocean water will be another kettle of fish (coral?) altogether. Long before global warming, the reefs off Florida's coast were destroyed by smothering from algae due to eutrophication from excess nutrients and sediment runoff from development.

[@Life_42]

Life on Earth is awesome!

[@d.m.uu.8776]

iove to see your passion in your eyes, you work what you love for ❤❤❤❤❤ oood luck for your future and thank you for taking care of the corals

[@khurramkhurshed9427]

Beautiful

[@dhawthorne1634]

What would make the biggest difference is transplanting reefs closer to the poles. Corals can't migrate very easily so shifting these screens further south and moving some down around the Great Australian Bight would help bring the corals into more hospitable waters.

[@walter-vq1fw]

Corals are sensitive. The temperature is not enough to host them. More conditions need to be met

[@SweetLilWren]

Absolutely Beautiful

[@sulimanbah5404]

What a brilliant idea.....wow 👏 👌

[@slonkey3641]

evolution

[@Eloign]

Corals have been living and dying forever. The strong will survive.

[@jeninlight]

Wow, you mean life evolves and adapts?! Like it always has since life evolved?! NO WAY!! It’s almost as if changes in climate has happened on earth before, over and over and over…. it’s almost as if human hubris leads us to believe we have more of an impact then we really do….

[@earendilthebright5402]

Its almost as if you know what you're talking about! Wow! Great job!

[@superjesus4307]

Pollution and overfishing is coral problem, not "climate change".

[@dnbmania]

Climate change as well

[@stevemcglamery5368]

Last year the Great Barrier Reef had the most coral extent in history. The coral reefs are not dying, go look for yourself. I have.

[@kma3647]

I'm not nearly as concerned as the woman who keeps her grant money flowing and her career developing based on her being concerned. Why? Because corals have been around on this planet since the Cambrian. They've lived in much more acidic water, much warmer, much colder, and much higher atmospheric CO2 content. They're resilient creatures no matter how much these people try and treat them like sick little puppies. Let Nature work. The Great Barrier Reef isn't dying like they've been warning for years. It's thriving.

[@earendilthebright5402]

Completely missing the point. Astounding how you try to apply logic to something you don't understand.

[@theadjudicator9540]

Wasnt this debunked?

[@MM-we4no]

What do you mean? Debunk coral reefs? You can’t debunk something that literally exists 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@theadjudicator9540]

@@MM-we4no The science that they were dying because of climate change don't play dumb

[@trinitybennett2956]

@@MM-we4no The reef is in the best shape it has been since 1984 when we first started measuring its health. Ginger tree syndrome has been blamed on climate change, but the water table has been drained too low. Peoples water bores are dry. Spruce tree forests are dying because they were planted in areas they are not native. We need to treat the environment better, all the lying is discrediting the cause. Big business and globalisation is causing the damage and once again they have come up with a way to make you pay for it, the average person while the Klaus Shwaub and Bill Gates fly around the world on your carbon tax money.