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Corals just Can’t Win…
A new study published in the October issue of the journal Ecology sheds a bit more light on a phenomenon that is becoming more and more common for corals around the world: Bleaching (described as “the whitening of corals, due to stress-induced expulsion or death of symbiotic unicellular algae or due to the loss of pigmentation within the algae”). The paper shows that bleaching can make coral more susceptible to coral diseases, which in turn can lead to more … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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