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Resilient ‘super corals’ have recently been seen as potential saviors in the face of climate change and its destructive effects on coral reefs

Slow Food’s delegation from the United Kingdom consists of about 30 people. Farmers, producers, chefs, academics, activists are eagerly awaiting the event.

Earth’s vast underwater kelp forests are a vital source of food, pharmaceuticals, and more, while storing huge amounts of carbon. These undersea forests are also at risk, but researchers are working to restore them.

HIMB) are using selective breeding in corals to speed up natural evolutionary processes and better understand if heat tolerant coral colonies produce offspring better suited to dealing with climate change. Researchers will identify thermally tolerant corals in the field, breed them in the lab and expose them to anticipated future climate conditions to see how they cope with the increasingly stressful environments they will face. The most resilient corals will then be out-planted and the results of this selective breeding process will be monitored in the field. Bleached corals lose the algal s...