What's wiping out the Caribbean corals?

Friday, August 1, 2014 - 06:30 in Biology & Nature

Here's what we know about white-band disease: It has already killed up to 95 percent of the Caribbean's reef-building elkhorn and staghorn corals, and it's caused by an infectious bacteria that seems to be transmitted through the water and by coral-eating snails.

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