{"id":220012,"date":"2022-12-27T18:52:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T13:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=220012"},"modified":"2022-12-27T18:52:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T13:22:45","slug":"scientists-freeze-great-barrier-reef-coral-in-world-first-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/scientists-freeze-great-barrier-reef-coral-in-world-first-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists freeze Great Barrier Reef coral in world-first trial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Source<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">: The post is based on the article <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cScientists freeze Great Barrier Reef coral in world-first trial<\/span><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">published in<\/span> <strong>The Hindu<\/strong><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">on <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">24th December 2022<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5>What is the News?<\/h5>\n<p>Scientists working on Australia\u2019s Great Barrier Reef have successfully trialled a new method for freezing and storing coral larvae.<\/p>\n<h5>What is the need for Freezing Coral?<\/h5>\n<p><strong>1)<\/strong> As rising ocean temperatures destabilize the delicate ecosystems of Coral scientists are striving to protect coral reefs, <strong>2)<\/strong>\u00a0The Great Barrier Reef has suffered four bleaching events in the last seven years. This includes the first-ever bleach during a La Ni\u00f1a phenomenon, which typically brings cooler temperatures.<\/p>\n<h5>About the new method of cryomesh<\/h5>\n<p>Cryogenically frozen coral can be stored and later reintroduced to the wild but the current process requires sophisticated equipment including lasers.<\/p>\n<p>But the scientists used a cryomesh. Scientists used the cryomesh to freeze coral larvae for the first time in the world with Great Barrier Reef coral.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Note<\/strong>: The cryomesh was previously trialled on smaller and larger varieties of the Hawaiian corals. A trial on the larger variety failed.<\/em><\/p>\n<h5>What is the Cryomesh technology?<\/h5>\n<p>The mesh technology will help store coral larvae at -196\u00b0C (-320.8\u00b0F).<\/p>\n<p><strong>a)<\/strong> This new method could eventually help rewild reefs threatened by climate change, <strong>b)<\/strong> The new lightweight \u201ccryomesh\u201d can be manufactured cheaply and better preserves coral, <strong>c)<\/strong> The cryomesh technology will actually help to support some of the aquaculture and restoration interventions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cScientists freeze Great Barrier Reef coral in world-first trial\u201d published in The Hindu\u00a0on 24th December 2022.\u00a0 What is the News? Scientists working on Australia\u2019s Great Barrier Reef have successfully trialled a new method for freezing and storing coral larvae. What is the need for Freezing Coral? 1)&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/scientists-freeze-great-barrier-reef-coral-in-world-first-trial\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scientists freeze Great Barrier Reef coral in world-first trial<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-220012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}