Global Warming Makes Seaweed Sick

New research links the spread of disease in a type of seaweed that is critical for marine life to global warming

Rising ocean temperatures due to global warming have already been linked to coral reef deaths, destructive storms, shifting species distributions and harmful algal blooms. Now, a team of Australian researchers is adding a new and similarly daunting concern to that list: the spread of disease in “habitat-forming” seaweeds that are critical to marine health.

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