Corals, Already in Danger, Are Facing New Threat From Farmed Algae

Corals, Already in Danger, Are Facing New Threat From Farmed Algae

Kiribati 8 July 2008 - 8 July 2008

Source: The New York Times
BUTARITARI, Kiribati — Off the palm-fringed white beach of this remote Pacific atoll, the view underwater is downright scary.
Corals are being covered and smothered to death by a bushy seaweed that is so tough even algae-grazing fish avoid it. It settles in the reef’s crevices that fish once called home, driving them away.

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