Science News Roundup: Disaster under the waves: the race to save the coral of the Caribbean

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Disaster under the waves: the race to save the coral of the Caribbean

Emily Hower, a research assistant at Nova Southeastern University doing fieldwork on coral off Key West in Florida, bobs up out of the water and removes her diving mask. The news is not good. Most of the pillar coral that her team have been monitoring for years are dead.

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