Great Barrier Reef particles frozen

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Scientists in Australia have succeeded, for the first time, in freezing particles from the Great Barrier Reef.

The Reef is decaying because of rising temperatures in the Pacific.

Now a team based in Sydney has frozen billions of coral cells, with the aim of saving them for the future. Duncan Kennedy reports.

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