Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Florida coral reefs plagued with mysterious disease

With coral reefs under threat worldwide, researchers in Florida are racing to understand and treat a mysterious disease that threatens to decimate the third largest coral reef on Earth. Within four years, the as-of-yet unidentified, potentially bacterial disease has already had a significant impact on Florida's coral species, half of which are fatally vulnerable to the disease. "When they're affected by this, the tissue sloughs off the skeleton," Erinn Muller, science director at Mote Marine Lab's...

from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/florida-coral-reefs-plagued-with-mysterious-disease
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