Photo: Warming, Disease Causing Major Caribbean Reef Die-Off



A bleached brain coral off the Florida coast.

Caribbean corals weakened by a record bleaching event last year are now dying at an alarming rate from a disease called white plague, researchers say.

Photograph courtesy USGS


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