In California, bleached corals recovered in weeks, but only when touching healthy twins

Image caption: In a laboratory setting, researchers have shown that corals can fully recover from bleaching within seven weeks through brief contact with healthy corals. Image credit: Danny Collins. Article by Kim LaCapria. The Cool Down – October 21, 2026. Research article: Science Advances.

At Stanford University in California, scientists documented an unusually fast change in bleached coral fragments: their color returned within seven weeks. That rebound came with an important limitation, with the stressed corals only recovering when they touched healthy, genetically identical partners directly. Bleached fragments separated by just a few millimeters — only a few tenths of an inch — did not recover and eventually died, ZME Science reported. […]

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