How to pronounce "bacteria"

I've been trying to help corals become parents for over 10 years now.

And watching the wonder of life

has certainly filled me with amazement to the core of my soul.

But I've also seen how difficult it is for them to become parents.

The pillar corals spawned again two weeks ago,

and we collected their eggs and brought them back to the lab.

And here you see one embryo dividing,

alongside 14 eggs that didn't fertilize

and will blow up.

They'll be infected with bacteria, they will explode

and those bacteria will threaten the life of this one embryo

that has a chance.

We don't know if it was our handling methods that went wrong

and we don't know

if it was just this coral on this reef, always suffering from low fertility.

Whatever the cause,

we have much more work to do before we can use baby corals

to grow or fix or, yes, maybe save coral reefs.

So never mind that they're worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

Coral reefs are hardworking animals and plants and microbes and fungi.

They're providing us with art and food and medicine.