Climate change and corals

By Edyta Zielinska

As part of our package on the effects of climate change on the biosphere, associate editor Edyta Zielinska took a look at coral disease. Ernesto Weil from the University of Puerto Rico has worked with coral reefs in the Caribbean for 30 years, and has seen a great deal of change. Here are some of the photographs he's taken of the damage from coral diseases.

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