Dr Ruth Gates, a preeminent coral-reef biologist and marine conservationist best remembered for advocating the breeding of a “super coral” that could resist the effects of global warming and replenish rapidly deteriorating reefs worldwide, died Oct. 25 at a hospital in Kailua, Hawaii. She was 56.
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She also appeared in the Emmy Award-winning Netflix documentary “Chasing Coral” (2017) and became a frequent commentator in the media on reef conservation as well as the effects of climate change.
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