UniversidadxClimaResearchers race to understand disease killing #Caribbeancorals at unprecedented rates
Corals, like humans, sometimes get sick. But stony coral tissue loss disease #SCTLD is different, researchers say. It afflicts an unprecedented number of species, has spread over a vast area, kills incredibly quickly. Massive coral colonies, some hundreds of years old, can die within weeks or months, leaving reefs unrecognizable
Ruth Kamnitzer
#ClimateChange #CoralReefs
#CoralBleaching
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/researchers-race-to-understand-new-disease-killing-caribbean-corals-at-unprecedented-rates/
Corals, like humans, sometimes get sick. But stony coral tissue loss disease #SCTLD is different, researchers say. It afflicts an unprecedented number of species, has spread over a vast area, kills incredibly quickly. Massive coral colonies, some hundreds of years old, can die within weeks or months, leaving reefs unrecognizable
Ruth Kamnitzer
#ClimateChange #CoralReefs
#CoralBleaching
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/researchers-race-to-understand-new-disease-killing-caribbean-corals-at-unprecedented-rates/
Researchers race to understand new disease killing Caribbean corals at unprecedented rates
This May, divers found stony coral tissue loss disease on corals in Laughing Bird Caye National Park, Belize, for the first time. The team from Fragments of Hope, a nonprofit, regularly monitors the site. A month previously there had been no sign at all of the disease. But on their trip in May, they found […]