🌿 Environment 2d ago · Rick MacPherson

When ‘After’ Means Alive

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At first glance, it looks almost like an embrace.
One coral fragment is pale, its branching form pressed against a smaller, richly colored counterpart. Nine weeks later, the pale fragment has regained its color. Seen against the black background, the transformation is unmistakable. Something living has made contact with something struggling, and the struggle has changed course.
I keep returning to the place where they meet.
There is a scientific explanation for what happens there. There is also

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