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The race is on to save Coral dying Reefs
Coral Maker, a Melbourne-based startup founded by marine biologist Laura Foster, is using the family’s dry-casting machines to build limestone skeletons of corals that resemble the natural skeletons. The company’s plan is to provide young corals with a suitable foundation from which they can grow faster. Foster worked in her family’s masonry business before researching…
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Scientists were able to duplicate this coral reef
Scientists at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography have found that coral reefs around the world, including the one in Kiribati, are dying because of human-induced climate change. The scientists said that over 50% of the coral reefs they had been studying were destroyed by ocean warming between 2015 and 2016. They also found that some…