"The Florida Aquarium in Tampa, Florida, says they've made scientific history as a group of coral has successfully reproduced two days in a row for the first time in a lab setting"

🚨🚨 We are proud to announce that #ProjectCoral at the Florida Aquarium in Apollo Beach has successful made history as the first to spawn Atlantic coral in a laboratory setting. 😮 This event is a game-changer in the race to save the Florida Reef Tract. https://t.co/GVZHkbPLcx pic.twitter.com/dww9t5aHgF

— The Florida Aquarium (@floridaaquarium) August 21, 2019

CNN:

"Our team of experts cracked the code...that gives hope to coral in the Florida Reef Tract and to coral in the Caribbean and Atlantic Oceans."

Fast Company wrote about a different strategy this week:

If you dive off the coast of Israel at a beach near the city of Eilat, you might come across a tall pole underwater covered in donut-shaped attachments. It doesn’t look like a coral reef. But the researchers who 3D printed the structure are hoping that it could be used for rebuilding diversity in areas where reefs are dying.

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The Israeli researchers aren’t the first to take this approach. Reef Design Lab, founded by an Australian industrial designer, installed the world’s largest 3D-printed reef in the Maldives last year, taking advantage of the technology’s ability to recreate natural shapes.