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Here is a long Science magazine News article on trying to engineer corals to better deal with climate change.
Two challenges corals face due to climate change:
The researchers involved are taking several different approaches:
Two challenges corals face due to climate change:
- increasing the temperature of the water in which coral lives (A 2˚ C temperature increase is said to be deadly to most coral)
- as well as increasing the water's pH (higher pH increases the CaCO)3 tendency to dissolve).
The researchers involved are taking several different approaches:
- creating hybrids of existing corals
- genetically modifying coral and it's symbiotic algae
- manipulating the corals microbiome (bacteria/archaea)
- raise corals and algae in more extreme environments to select for greater heat resistance