In waters around the US state of Florida this summer, scientists and volunteers scrambled to rescue thousands of live coral fragments and store them in nurseries until ocean temperatures cooled.
It was a frantic effort to save what they could as water temperatures reached up to 38 deg C, far beyond what most corals can tolerate.
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