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Scientists were able to restore a coral reef in Indonesia in just four years by using specially made steel frames covered with sand.

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Steel Frame Brings Completely Dead Coral Reef Back to Life

By Sharon Adarlo

The remains of one newly discovered, ancient coral reef, believed to be some millions of years old, have been discovered in an Australian desert plain.

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Scientists Find Remnants of Huge Coral Reef in Middle of Desert

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists say the Great Barrier Reef is suffering its six mass bleach event because of heat waves caused by climate change.

Scientists say World’s Largest Coral Reef is Bleaching Again

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A team of researchers in Japan have managed to successfully establish cell lines in a coral, meaning that they were able to culture cells of a coral.

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Scientists Grow Coral in Lab, in Glimmer of Hope for Dying Reefs

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists identified a gene that allows coral to survive hot water, and they want to gene-hack it into reefs to protect against climate change.

Scientists Want to Gene-Hack Coral Reefs to Survive Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered a massive new coral reef lurking near Australia's Great Barrier Reef for the first time in over 120 years.

Scientists Discover Huge, Unknown Coral Reef

By Dan Robitzski

A new study found that fish would flock to dead coral reefs if researchers blasted the sounds of a healthy reef from nearby underwater speakers.

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Fish Rave: Loudspeakers Draw Wildlife to Dead Reefs

By Kristin Houser

Coral Vita is working to build a coral farm on land, which it claims allows it to grow coral at up to 50 times the rate of underwater farms.

This Startup Is Growing Coral on Land and Transplanting It Into Damaged Reefs

By Kristin Houser

Researchers Don’t Know What’s Killing Florida’s Coral Reef

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Researchers Don’t Know What’s Killing Florida’s Coral Reef

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An Ocean of Plastic Is Choking the World’s Most Precious Coral Reefs

Scientists Find Hope in ‘Bright Spots’ to Conserve Coral Reefs

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Scientists Find Hope in ‘Bright Spots’ to Conserve Coral Reefs

By Charmaine Caparas