Coral chemicals protect against warming oceans

[unable to retrieve full-text content](Science in Public) Australian marine scientists have found the first evidence that coral itself may play an important role in regulating local climate.They have discovered that the coral animal--not just its algal symbiont--makes an important sulphur-based molecule with properties to assist it in many ways, ranging from cellular protection in times of heat stress to local climate cooling by encouraging clouds to form.Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-10/sip-ccp102313.php
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