Potential New Threat For Coral Reefs And Health Of Communities In The Tropics

ScienceDaily (Sep. 4, 2008) — Human activities bear a large part of the responsibility for coral reef degradation. Several threats hang over this complex ecosystem with its extraordinary biodiversity, whether in the form of anthropogenic effluents emitted at certain times or global warming which causes coral bleaching. The dead corals can be colonized by a blanket of algae in turn favouring colonization by... [read full story]