Friday, October 26, 2012

Great Barrier Reef's coral crisis could find help in deeper waters

MSNBC: A robot diving deeper than any human diver has found that coral deep below Australia's Great Barrier Reef is very healthy even though the shallower coral is suffering from storms, warming seas and pollution. The robot's handlers hope the deeper coral will provide the "recruits" needed to naturally repair the shallower reefs. "Up until now our knowledge was limited to the shallow reefs accessible by scuba diving," Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, chief scientist for the Catlin Seaview Survey, said in a statement...

URL: http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/26/14725855-great-barrier-reefs-coral-crisis-could-find-help-in-deeper-waters?lite

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