从悬崖边缘归来？

Bleaching has devastated coral reefs around the world, but there are ways we can help them recover, discovers Thomas Lewton H ERON Island, in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, was once so bountiful that an image of it is hurtling beyond the outer reaches of our solar system – one of a handful of pictures stored on the Voyager Golden Records, a selection of the very best examples of life on Earth. They began developing new ways to restore reefs, from larvae-spawning machines to coral probiotics. A decade later, these researchers find themselves racing against an escalating onslaught of marine heatwaves that last year pushed corals past the first-ever climate tipping point – an abrupt and potentially irreversible shift. …