Factoid/2006/04/11
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Unprecedented Die-Off of Caribbean Coral Reefs
- "Its an unprecedented die-off," said National Park Service fisheries biologist Jeff Miller, who last week checked 40 stations in the Virgin Islands. "The mortality that were seeing now is of the extremely slow-growing reef-building corals. These are corals that are the foundation of the reef ... Were talking colonies that were here when Columbus came by have died in the past three to four months." - excerpt from this MSNBC.com article.
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