![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090509061658im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Corals and Climate Change
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August 13, 2007
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A modest new lab at the Rosenstiel School is the first of its kind to tackle the global problem of climate change impacts on corals. Fully operational this month, the new lab has begun to study how corals respond to the combined stress of greenhouse warming and ocean acidification. The lab is the first to maintain corals under precisely controlled temperature and carbon dioxide conditions while exposing them to natural light conditions.
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Source University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science
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