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TOPSHOT - Corals in tanks on August 22, 2019, at Apollo Beach, Florida. - A team of scientists in the US have managed to reproduce coral in a lab setting for the first time ever, an encouraging step in the race to save "America's Great Barrier Reef" off the coast of Florida. (Photo by Gianrigo MARLETTA / AFP) (Photo credit should read GIANRIGO MARLETTA/AFP/Getty Images)

TOPSHOT - Corals in tanks on August 22, 2019, at Apollo Beach, Florida. - A team of scientists in the US have managed to reproduce coral in a lab setting for the first time ever, an encouraging step in the race to save "America's Great Barrier Reef" off the coast of Florida. (Photo by Gianrigo MARLETTA / AFP)        (Photo credit should read GIANRIGO MARLETTA/AFP/Getty Images)