The Reef Restoration and Adaptation Programme Is a Big Step in the Right Direction

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The rief restoration and adaptation programme helps to integrate work on assisting coral evolution. Data from those projects are now being fed directly into models that enable researchers to assess the potential benefits, as well as risks,. of releasing new strains of coral and micro alga into the wild. The program is also raising ecological questions such as whether the introduction of new coral species can propagate disease.

Australian scientists are developing new technologies to help protect coral from climate change.

Earlier this year, a team of researchers used a mist-machine to artificially brighten clouds in order to block sunlight above Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. The project is the world’s first field trial of marine cloud brightening and is among a number of techniques and technologies being developed to save the country’s reefs from the worst effects of climate change.

This is an audio version of our feature: Can artificially altered clouds save the Great Barrier Reef?

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