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Authorities have decided to close off a beach in Hawaii for a week to give way as cauliflower coral spawning season starts. Read more here.

Researchers are starting to understand the biological rhythms that sync worms and corals to phases of the moon

It's about wanting to take the plant hostage with a view towards ukranian electricity supplies. an extremely worrying situation, bore, all around that plant. >> no question a precarious situation with enormous implications for ukraine. thanks very much, melissa bell. we want to turn now to a cnn exclusive. scientists at a florida aquarium have made a major breakthrough in trying to save coral reefs. that in itself is a historic goal and because it's also important for another reason. cnn has that story. >> reporter: they are deadly, violent and unleash mass destruction. year after year, we p...

Weird. >> reporter: o'neil tells me in the wild they are not successfully reproducing. they are also notoriously difficult to keep alive in aquariums, part of the reason why, she says, they face so much doubt from the scientific community that they can make this moment happen. >> we based a lot of criticism of people you can't keep those in an aquarium, you know. that's impossible. >> reporter: in the race to restore the reeves, there's more work to be done. this breakthrough only a first step. >> we are really buying time. we're buying time for the reef. we're buying time for the corals. >> t...

Spanning about 360 miles, florida has the world's third largest barrier reef, and right now it's at risk from stressors like pollution, disease and warming oceans. >> they are dying around the world. >> reporter: causes by the climate crisis. >> i would say that the problems facing coral reefs right now are human causes. you can't have the ocean running a fever every summer and not expect there to be impacts. >> reporter: but in this tank, a sign that hope is not lost for florida's reefs. you're looking at a major scientific breakthrough, coral spawning. the florida aquarium says it's the firs...