Is climate change likely to increase disease in corals?

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A coral colony with white syndrome from the Great Barrier Reef. Credit: Australian Institute of Marine Science Long-term Monitoring Program
A coral colony with white syndrome from the Great Barrier Reef. Credit: Australian Institute of Marine Science Long-term Monitoring Program

Coral reefs, among Earth's richest ecosystems, traditionally teem with an abundance of life. But in recent years, corals have been dying in droves. Scientists suspect a variety of factors, ranging from accidental damage from fishing activity to the effects of polluted runoff from land. One threat that appears to be growing dramatically in Australia's famed Great Barrier Reef is white syndrome, a disease that is spreading rapidly, leaving stripes of dead corals like ribbons of death in its wake.


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