Coral bleaching epidemic devastates reefs off South Florida
Sunday, October 4, 2015 - 06:20
in Earth & Climate
Corals are turning chalk white and dying on reefs stretching from the Florida Keys to the Miami area, in what experts call one of the worst episodes in two decades of coral bleaching in Florida. Under stress from unusually warm water, the corals are expelling the tiny bits of algae that give them...