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Touching Healthy Neighbors Helps Bleached Corals Recover in Weeks

Photo: Francesco Ungaro / Unsplash
Researchers have found that severely bleached corals can fully regenerate their color and health simply by coming into physical contact with healthy, genetically identical partners. In lab settings, just five days of gentle contact initiated a healing process that restored the damaged reefs within seven weeks.
Researchers have found that severely bleached corals can fully regenerate their color and health simply by coming into physical contact with healthy, genetically identical partners. In lab settings, just five days of gentle contact initiated a healing process that restored the damaged reefs within seven weeks.