The Corals That Survive Climate Change Will Be Unrecognizable
They have endured so much, and to endure this, they’ll have to adapt dramatically.
Marina Koren
Marina Koren is a staff writer at The Atlantic. Before joining in 2015, Marina was a politics and breaking-news reporter at National Journal. She has written for Smithsonian magazine, Psychology Today, Popular Mechanics, and other publications. At The Atlantic, Marina writes about science, with a focus on space exploration.
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