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Coral bleaching reversed in seven weeks with Stanford method
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Coral bleaching reversed in seven weeks with Stanford method

So, here's a hopeful discovery: Stanford researchers helped severely bleached corals recover fully in just seven weeks, the fastest recovery documented so far. Brief contact with healthy, genetically identical coral fragments let beneficial algae and nutrients move into the struggling corals and kick-start their recovery. Even five days of contact could provide enough algae for the bleached fragments to continue healing on their own. The lab results offer a promising new possibility for restoring reefs, though more research is needed to see how the method could work in the wild.
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