What can we learn from our more radical attempts to protect the Great Barrier Reef?

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Projects currently underway to try and protect the Great Barrier Reef from climate change are some of the most radical projects in the world, according to international researchers investigating what we can learn from some of the more unorthodox approaches. The researchers interviewed a small group of experts involved with four types of climate interventions underway at or near the Great Barrier Reef; efforts to improve coral adaptation through selective breeding, solar geoengineering, carbon removal through forestry conservation and reforestation, and enhanced weathering and ocean alkalinisation. The researchers say that combined, these four types of projects can potentially assist one another, but they also come with risks