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The Sex Life Of Coral: Why Scientists Think It Could Save Us All

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Civil Beat

Publication Date
2017-09-11

The crescent moon, just a sliver of silver above the palms, is starting to set on a balmy June evening as two dozen volunteers switch on their red-filtered headlamps at a restricted research facility off the windward coast of Oahu. They stand in the dark around large tanks and buckets of seawater, anxious to start collecting tiny sacks of coral sperm and eggs for scientists at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology.

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http://www.civilbeat.org/2017/09/the-sex-life-of-coral-why-scientists-think-it-could-save-us-all/