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The super El Niño is cooking coral reefs — can lullabies and probiotics save them? (www.nature.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Keld@hexbear.net to c/earth@hexbear.net

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Researchers are trying everything they can to help coral reefs to survive severe heat stress from climate change, including playing sounds underwater.

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[–] DoofusAscendant@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sounds recorded at vibrant reefs — such as the clicks of snapping prawn and the thrum of fish — fill the water at spots where coral reefs are struggling because of high temperatures, pollution and other stresses.

Not knocking anyone for trying here, but how does this not feel kinda messed up? doomer

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

gaslighting a fish does feel a little odd.