The stony coral (Oculina patagonica) after being exposed to acidic ocean condition (pH 7.4) after two months and four months. This shows how some coral species are able to adapt to more acidic ...

Stony coral tissue loss disease, or SCTLD, was first reported off the coast of Miami in 2014 and has since moved throughout ...

Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Is Shifting the Ecological Balance of Caribbean Reefs May 3, 2024 — A new study shows stony coral tissue loss disease is causing drastic changes in the Caribbean ...

The connection between polyps allows for the sharing of nutrients. Beneath the soft bodies of scleractinian, or stony corals, polyps secrete a calcium carbonate skeleton, and it is this skeleton ...

The coral was sick. And this paste might help heal it. In the last decade, a mysterious illness called stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) has been ravaging coral in reefs across the Caribbean.

Sea fans--¬softer-bodied coral relatives--colonizing a dead stony coral framework. A new study, published Aug. 31 in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, finds that reef-building corals ...

The coral was sick. And this paste might help heal it. In the last decade, a mysterious illness called stony coral tissue loss disease has been ravaging coral in reefs across the Caribbean.

Even before last summer, upwards of 90% of coral on Florida’s reef had vanished due to warming temperatures, pollution and sediment runoff, disease outbreaks — stony coral tissue loss being ...

Reginald is part of a team of ardent reef protectors in the Turks and Caicos Islands which, in 2019, became the seventh Caribbean country confirmed as being affected by stony coral tissue loss ...

the gene bank in the Bahamas will focus on preserving coral species unique to Bahamian waters, some of which are under threat from Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease which arrived in the Caribbean in ...

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Stony Brook University on Long Island has experienced "significant flooding" damage from storms that hit the tri-state area Sunday night – adding stress and uncertainty to the start of a new ...