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Technician Yesmarie De La Flor prepares a culture of probiotic bacteria in the Smithsonian Marine Station’s microbiology laboratory in Fort Pierce, Florida. These probiotics were used for further ...

Discover the non-antibiotic solutions used to combat stony coral tissue loss disease. Coral reefs face a crisis with stony coral tissue loss disease, but there's hope in alternative treatments. Dr.

Probiotics can be good for human health. Now, new research suggests they might also help protect coral reefs. A bacterial probiotic helped slow the advance of stony coral tissue loss disease—a ...

A diver applies antibiotics to an elliptical star coral with stony coral tissue loss disease in the Tortugas. As stony coral disease carved a catastrophic path along Florida’s reef tract and parts of ...

Dead coral sit on the ocean bed in the Straits of Florida near Key Largo, Florida, on September 23, 2021. These corals were not treated with the new probiotic technique, but are an example of what ...

A coral reef in Belize showing dead coral, living healthy elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata), both diseased and healthy symmetrical brain corals (Pseudodiploria strigosa), and a spotfin butterflyfish.

Coral reefs, the "rainforests of the sea," provide habitats for 25% of all marine life. Critical to global biodiversity, they ...

A new study into the 7-year stony coral disease outbreak decimating reefs from Florida to the Caribbean has found the disease can be lurking in sand on the ocean floor and rapidly spread lethal ...

A new study shows stony coral tissue loss disease is causing drastic changes in the Caribbean's population of corals, which is sure to disrupt the delicate balance of the ecosystem and threaten marine ...