Photo: Electricity Revives Bali Coral Reefs

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Tropical fish swim around coral formations in Pemuteran Bay, off the island of Bali, Indonesia.

Architect Wolf Hilbertz, who died in August and scientist Thomas Goreau have designed a system to reattach and strengthen ailing coral with electricity.

Photograph by Wolf Hilbertz /AP

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