Typically, when conservationists are trying to restore dead or dying Coral reefs, they do so by manually fastening fragments of live coral to the existing reef. It's a painstaking and time-consuming process. Thanks to new technology developed by marine ecology group SECORE International, however, reef restoration may soon be as quick and easy as sowing seeds in a garden.

• Conservation
• Coral Bleaching
• Ocean

• Preserving reef ecology by putting plastic in the ocean
• Some coral species are adapting to warmer waters
• Hawaiian marine preserve hit by coral bleaching
• Great Barrier Reef bleaching even worse than first thought
• New underwater microscope provides ringside seat to coral turf wars
• Aerial survey reveals extent of coral bleaching on Great Barrier Reef