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Insights Into Deadly Coral Bleaching Could Help Preserve Reefs
2013-04-23 20:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Coral reefs are stressed the world over and could be in mortal danger because of climate change. But why do some corals die and others not, even when exposed to the same environmental conditions? An interdisciplinary research team from Northwestern University and The Field Museum of Natural History has a surprising answer: The corals themselves play a role in their susceptibility to deadly coral bleaching due to the light-scattering properties of their skeletons. No one else has shown this before....
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