"Reviving Coral Reefs with Steel Frames"

Scientists have successfully revived a dead coral reef off the coast of Indonesia by installing specially-made steel frames into the sea floor and transplanting coral onto them, demonstrating the potential for restoring damaged reefs. While the restored reefs show similar growth and vigor to healthy reefs, they are dominated by fast-growing coral species and differ in some ways from natural reefs. This success offers hope for making reefs more resilient in the face of climate change, which threatens to devastate coral populations in the coming decades.