Cloud brightening to cool seas can protect coral reefs
Wednesday, July 10, 2013 - 07:00
in Earth & Climate
The seeding of marine clouds to cool sea surface temperatures could protect threatened coral reefs from being bleached by warming oceans. Research, published in Atmospheric Science Letters, proposes that a targeted version of the geo-engineering technique could give coral a fifty year 'breathing space' to recover from acidification and warming.