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How badly does climate change affect coral? I dive to find out

By putting on my scuba suit and keeping track of corals in French Polynesia, I hope to determine how much stress they’re under.
  1. Patricia Maia Noronha

    1. Patricia Maia Noronha is a freelance writer in Lisbon, Portugal.

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Yann Lacube takes notes at one of the coral nurseries on the coral reefs of the Society Islands in French Polynesia. on May 9, 2019 in Moorea, French Polynesia.

Yann Lacube is a diving and aquarium project manager at CRIOBE, a centre for research into coral-reefs in Mo‘orea, French Polynesia. Credit: Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty

The corals that my colleagues and I study in Mo‘orea, French Polynesia, are sea polyps that grow in symbiosis with unicellular algae called zooxanthellae. Most of these corals’ nutrients come from the sugars produced by algal photosynthesis.

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Nature 625, 208 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-04092-1

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