Take a Closer Look at Dubai’s Efforts to Regrow Coral Reefs

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In Dubai, a coral farming business is using modern science to regrow a critical part of ocean life up to 50 times faster in the race against climate change.

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00:00Could this be the key to restoring the planet's coral reefs?

00:03Here in Dubai, a coral farming business is using modern science to regrow a critical

00:08part of the ocean's life up to 50 times faster, fragmenting coral into tiny pieces and infusing

00:15them back together, preparing it to withstand the warming ocean temperatures from climate

00:19change.

00:20We can control the temperatures and the light intensity, the waves, so we're creating an

00:28environment which makes the coral more stronger than normal so they can survive in the ocean.

00:35This method of reef restoration is called assisted evolution, and you can see the new, stronger

00:40coral planted back into the Arabian Gulf Sea.

00:43When we put the coral next to each other, they are creating a healing environment and they

00:49start to recover more faster and they have the ability to connect to each other so they

00:53can reach the mature level in a very short time.

00:56The farm, called Coral Vita, says it transplanted 30,000 corals last year across the Caribbean

01:02Sea, offering the ability to adopt a coral.

01:06Which shows the micro-fragment that I recently adopted.

01:12And here is a picture of that micro-fragment growing in the tub.

01:18And it couldn't come at a better time.

01:20The United Nations Environment Program estimates live coral could decrease by 70-90% by 2050 without

01:27drastic action to limit the warming of our planet's waters.

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