Experts say that within the next 50 years our planets coral reefs could completely disappear because of the high climate temperatures. New studies by Stanford university scientist are saying the opposite, there is actually evidence that our oceans reefs are now adapting to the warm climate temperatures "Corals are certainly threatened by environmental change, but this research has really sparked the notion that corals may be tougher than we thought," says a professor of biology Stephen Palumbi. This has become a big project by palumbi and other researchers they found in the year of 2006 that the reef temperatures were assumed to be as hot as they will be in 100 years from now. In different coral reefs some can resist the bleaching by accommodating algae that can survive in the heat of the reefs. Palumbi and his team of researchers have tracked down coral reefs across the globe to see how many are abundant to the hot temperatures. They are learning how the biological process allows them to adapt to the high climate and hoping this will make a difference in the future with the whole warming of the oceans problem.
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