The Great Barrier Reef Is Being Depleted by Pollution and Climate Change. Could 'Coral IVF' Save It?

The idea to restore coral reefs by intervening in the breeding process of coral came to Peter Harrison while he was drifting through trillions of coral eggs and sperm whirling in an underwater snowstorm during a mating ritual at Australia’s Great Barrier Reef that occurs each year in the romantic light of a full moon.

That moment, in the early 1980’s, kicked off a lifetime of research for Harrison, a professor at Australia’s Southern Cross University—and culminated in the development of a process that he describes as something akin to in vitro fertilization (IVF) for the reef.

Read more at Time Magazine.