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Five metres under the blue waters of the Red Sea in Eilat, Israel, we’re examining a long steel table arrayed like a plant nursery with ranks of near-identical specimens.

They’re not plants, they’re corals, which are being cultivated for experiments into ocean acidification.

The specimens are taken to one of the world’s most desirable science laboratories – the Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science, located right on the beach at Eilat.

There, scientists are reaching worrying conclusions, particularly for the hundreds of millions of people who rely on fish that depend on coral reefs.