In Dubai, a coral farming business is using modern science to regrow a critical part of ocean life up to 50 times faster in the race against climate change.
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00:00Could this be the key to restoring the planet's coral reefs?
00:03Here in Dubai, a coral farming business is using modern science to regrow a critical
00:08part of the ocean's life up to 50 times faster, fragmenting coral into tiny pieces and infusing
00:15them back together, preparing it to withstand the warming ocean temperatures from climate
00:19change.
00:20We can control the temperatures and the light intensity, the waves, so we're creating an
00:28environment which makes the coral more stronger than normal so they can survive in the ocean.
00:35This method of reef restoration is called assisted evolution, and you can see the new, stronger
00:40coral planted back into the Arabian Gulf Sea.
00:43When we put the coral next to each other, they are creating a healing environment and they
00:49start to recover more faster and they have the ability to connect to each other so they
00:53can reach the mature level in a very short time.
00:56The farm, called Coral Vita, says it transplanted 30,000 corals last year across the Caribbean
01:02Sea, offering the ability to adopt a coral.
01:06Which shows the micro-fragment that I recently adopted.
01:12And here is a picture of that micro-fragment growing in the tub.
01:18And it couldn't come at a better time.
01:20The United Nations Environment Program estimates live coral could decrease by 70-90% by 2050 without
01:27drastic action to limit the warming of our planet's waters.
01:30And here is one of the pollutants that have been told by the total от voiceover of a volcano in
01:33the river.
01:34However, more than 200% of the people that are being earth and warm, you will have to
01:36get the most countless waters.
01:37The island is expanded, so many of the places that we are going to take on our own running
01:38past.
01:39And then we'll be able to do something of the crater.
01:40The island has been to the lake and here in an rubbish per cent.
01:41The island has been to the river that is getting the most of the water.
01:42And here, we're going to go to the lake and the lake and the lake had been
01:43to the lake again to the lake.
01:43And here is the lake with the lake and the lake with the lake.
01:44And here is the lake and the lake is noget.
01:45The lake and the beach is connected to the river.