According to the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service, 2023 was the planet's hottest year on record and likely the warmest in the last 100,000 years, as reported by Reuters. Red Sea corals are dubbed 'Super Corals' for their unexpected resilience to bleaching when exposed to high temperatures, either in nature or in scientific experiments. However, even here the reefs struggled when the surface seawater temperatures in November 2023 were way above the annual average. Scientists are trying to understand the biological capacity of these corals to live at higher temperatures.
