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How to build heat tolerance

Safely spending some time outdoors when it’s sweltering out could help build up your tolerance to hotter conditions.
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Scientists develop heat-tolerant pumpkins to withstand climate change - and "save a particular way of American life"

As farmers across the country deal with more extreme weather, researchers are trying to carve out a solution to protect pumpkins from climate change's wrath, potentially saving the crop for generations to come.

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Corals swap in heat-resistant algae to better cope with global warming

Some corals can swap out the algae that live inside their tissues for different strains that are more heat tolerant – and these coral species have a better chance of surviving global climate change in the coming decades.

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Algae transplant could protect coral reefs threatened by warming seas

Heat-resistant algae made in a lab seems to protect coral from bleaching. It could help to save reefs if we fail to tackle global warming fast enough
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How climate change impacts Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

Record temperatures pose many direct threats to human health and the environment in Australia. It has also fueled a crisis in the ocean.

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