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As ocean waters heat up, a quest to create super corals
2015-08-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: In Hawaii this summer, as corals engage in their once-a-year courtship ritual of releasing sperm and eggs into the water by moonlight, Ruth Gates will oversee a unique mating: the coming together of super-corals in her lab. Gates and her team at the Institute of Marine Biology in Kaneohe tagged corals in their local waters that thrived through a heinous hot spell last September. A few of those rugged specimens will be picked for arranged marriages this month, hopefully yielding some offspring...
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