Not just a pretty face

• Autores: Michael Slezak
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3026, 2015, págs. 36-39
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Slezak discusses a new research that's painting a very different portrait of corals, one that casts them in the light of plucky little fighters with more oomph in the face of climate change than previously thought. Ove Hoegh-Guldberg and his colleagues have grown tiny coral reefs in tanks and simulated possible future climates by varying water acidity, average temperatures, and daily and seasonal temperature variations. According to their tank experiments, none of the future scenarios look great, not even the ones where emissions are reduced immediately.