BBC World Service | How scientists are hoping to save our coral reefs - The Climate Question podcast, BBC World Service @BBCWorldService | Uploaded July 2024 | Updated October 2024, 22 hours ago.
Corals protect humans and sustain 25% of all marine life. But reefs are under threat from climate change. And mass bleaching events mean that some scientists estimate they could disappear by 2100.

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Can we save the world's coral? To investigate, Graihagh Jackson is joined by BBC CrowdScience presenter Caroline Steel. Caroline goes to Puerto Rico to see how self-duplicating, carnivorous coral could be the solution. We also speak to the scientist who helped discover what was causing coral bleaching in the first place, back when climate change was commonly denied.

00:00 Visiting London SEA LIFE Aquarium
02:43 Corals are animals, not plants
03:36 How climate change is affecting coral
12:09 Protecting corals
14:36 Growing corals in captivity
16:16 Coral eat coral
21:30 Does growing corals in captivity really work?

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