Completely unsurprisingly, coal dust kills coral, too

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By Clayton AldernMay 18, 2016, 4:44 am36 pts
To the shock of no one, it turns out that coal dust is pretty bad for just about everything. People? Turns their lungs the wrong color. Rats? Plaque in the arteries. Corals? Turns out when you spill a lot of coal dust into the water, they don’t do so well either. In a Nature Scientific Reports article…

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