This past summer, conservationists in Florida did something remarkable: they took corals out of the ocean en masse to save them from an ocean heat wave. It’s just one new strategy of many that researchers are trying out around the world to save coral reefs from climate change. They’re also mapping reefs like never before, cloning huge numbers of corals to plant in the wild, and even breeding new heat-resistant species. Will it be enough? Presented by Meta for Work. #Science #ClimateChange #CoralReef
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0:00 Introduction
0:34 Coral migration mission
2:42 Importance of coral reefs
3:25 Visiting the saved coral and looking towards the future
6:20 Mapping coral reefs with photomosaics
8:44 “Welcome to our eternal pets”
11:20 What the future of coral looks like
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