After a 2001 hurricane devastated Belize’s reef, a marine biologist grew surviving coral fragments on homemade steel tables; 92,000 plantings later, live coral cover was reported at about 60%

A hurricane devastated a shallow coral reef in Belize, leaving large sections of the seafloor covered in rubble. More than two decades later, branching corals have returned to much of the damaged area.

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