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Coral Breeding May Answer Warming Seas Problem Due To Climate Change

KJ Belonio   |

Jun 26, 2015 10:17 AM EDT

Over the past few decades, warming ocean waters due to climate change and global warming have been ravaging coral reefs. But in a new study published in the journal Science, a team of scientists from the U.S. and Australia revealed that there’s a possibility that deliberate breeding can pass on heat-tolerant genes to keep the threats of climate change at bay.