Posted on Sep 6, 2023
One way to save coral reefs? Deep freeze them for the future
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
"Scientists are working on preserving corals by cryogenically freezing them. In a new study, a team from the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, UC Berkeley and the University of Hawaii at Manoa report they successfully brought a coral fragment back to life after freezing it at -196 degrees Celsius."
"Scientists are working on preserving corals by cryogenically freezing them. In a new study, a team from the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, UC Berkeley and the University of Hawaii at Manoa report they successfully brought a coral fragment back to life after freezing it at -196 degrees Celsius."
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Yes, as much as can be saved need to be. I read somewhere there are also groups that have started to take chunks of Reef and keep them in environmentally clean tanks with cool, clean sea water to preserve them.
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