Artificial selection may be coral's only hope.
Artificial selection may be coral's only hope. -
Human-induced climate change has devastated coral populations, and now human intervention may be the only way to save them. As a last resort, researchers from the Australian Institute of Marine Science and the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology propose selectively breeding coral and their associated microbes to help the creatures adapt to warmer, more acidic seas. Matchmaker, matchmaker... Washington Post