In a new study, bleached corals recovered in just seven weeks after coming in brief contact with healthy coral
In a scientific breakthrough, scientists at Stanford University found a promising new way to restore bleached coral reefs: touching them with healthy coral.
The discovery happened by accident last year, when a scientist noticed two pieces of coral had fallen against each other in a lab tank — where the two were touching, the bleached piece of coral was regaining color.
The scientist expanded the experiment to ten pieces of healthy and bleached coral from the same colony, and found that all five bleached segments put in direct contact with a healthy segment recovered within seven weeks.
Why is this good news? It can typically take coral months or years to recover — if they do at all. Rising sea temperatures due to human-caused climate change have led to more frequent and severe coral bleaching events, giving reefs less and less time to recover. While not yet applicable on a large scale, this breakthrough could help researchers find ways to mimic the results in the ocean and save more of these critical marine ecosystems.
New research shows a steep, continual decline in the US prison population
Not only is the U.S. prison population declining at an accelerating rate, but prison admission rates are expected to fall an additional 50% within the next two decades.
A large portion of those in the criminal justice system came into it during the “crime boom” of the 1980s and 1990s — now, they’re aging out of it, and the generation behind them has seen far lower rates of crime and arrests. Since 2000, prison admission rates have fallen 53%.
The researchers noted the largest declines among Black men, whose prison admission rates fell by nearly two-thirds between 2000 and 2023 — it’s predicted to fall another 46% in the next decade.
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