Researchers race to understand new disease killing Caribbean corals at unprecedented rates

Mongabay
Jun 5, 2025, 9:35 pm208 ptsTop
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…

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