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Climate change. a pilot breeding project aimed at increasing the fertility of coral. >> the baby corals are going into big floating lava pools on the reef system. it's really exciting that we can go from these ideas of capturing coral spawn at small scale and starting to scale it up to much larger areas, many more pools and millions of larvae being developed. >> reporter: the great barrier reef is a sprawling marine habitat larger than italy, but it's in trouble. in the summer of 2016, vast amounts of coral suddenly started bleaching, turning bone white. >> what we saw in 2016 and 2017, the ma...

Reeves are undamaged by human contact. any damage? >> they are delicate fragile and important. it's still unclear as to how much damage this running aground by the cruise ship caused the reef system there in bermuda. i am told by the tourism authority here it's a marine life abundant reef. their dive teams haven't completed their assessment. >> thanks very much. we'll be right back with more. don't go away. from bank of america to buy a new gym bag. before earning 1% cash back everywhere, every time and 2% back at the grocery store. even before he got 3% back on gas. kenny used his bankameri...

Medaling in ukraine and giving support to ukraine. that is russia's message to the secretary. speaking of messages what do you think russia was trying to portray to the world with the force over the weekend and the partnership of having the chinese president present at the event. >> when russia was the soviet union during the cold war they had a may day which was showing the world we are not a second class power but a world class power and i think the russians are doing that. the fact they had the chinese president on the stand the chinese president sat next to him. both of these countries are...

Across queensland. at this point, 75 kilometer per hour winds. look at the satellite imagery, four days ago, three days ago, two days ago. it's meandered over this region, produced tremendous amount of rainfall. about 31 inches of rainfall that has come down offshore. while around cooktown around the order of 150 millimeters. 6 inches has caused damage to roads. the storm system on the return here. so more rainfall expected. and we know, of course the great barrier reef stretches here the largest reef system in the world. about 900 different islands dot this region. 3,000 different reefs dot t...

The way it works is we get waves coming through this region. eventually the waves eat away the shoreline. >> the reefs actually stop and ab bosh the wave energy. behind the reefs, the water flattens out. >> the wake of our own boat immediately lays down when it hits the reef back here. it's amazing. >> in mobile bay, we're using a different technique. >> looking good. >> that is we are laying bagged shell down on the floor of the gulf. volunteers formed a human chain and passed painstakingly one bag of oyster shell to each other to create these reefs. we're going to see oysters come in on thes...