For Florida Corals, Unprecedented Marine Heat Prompts New Restoration Strategy—On Shore

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North America’s only barrier reef is withering from heat and disease. Can efforts to preserve and propagate the corals at land-based facilities save them?

ORLANDO, Fla.—Tucked away in an office park hundreds of miles from the southeast Florida coast where North America’s only barrier reef is at dire risk, a collection of brain corals performed a once-a-year feat—producing a constellation of egg sacks, each a bundle of hope.

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