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Stories about: seaweeds

Seaweed Kills Corals on Contact For the first time ever, a group of investigators managed to produce conclusive scientific evidence that certain species of seaweeds are capable of killing corals just by touching them. Scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) made the discovery in a series of experiments that they ran on th... 11 May 2010 05:46 GMT Corals Hate Sand Latest scientific discoveries point to the fact that coral reefs and sand are "allergic" to each other, in that they can't survive together. This is especially true for the coral reefs, which, once sand gets in their midst, die and cannot regenerate even after long periods of time. The find is essential in under... 15 October 2008 10:57 GMT