Uploaded September 2018 | Updated September 2026, 20 minutes ago

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To help struggling coral reefs around the world, an international team of scientists has committed to planting more than a million new colonies of coral by 2021. But first they have to grow them. Meet Valerie Chamberland from SECORE, and learn how a growing group of scientists are performing the equivalent of in vitro fertilization for corals to help restore the planet's coral reefs.

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