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Probiotics help lab corals survive deadly heat stress

A lab experiment suggests good bacteria could help make reefs more resilient to climate change

orange and pink soft coral

Probiotics helped prevent hard corals from dying due to heat stress in a lab experiment. In the future, researchers plan to test the method on soft corals, too (like the one pictured).

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By Jonathan Lambert

- More than 2 years ago

Warming seas threaten to turn coral reefs from kaleidoscopes of color into bleached fields of rubble.