Garden Island: Rising ocean temperatures may be part of the answer to a mystery state scientists are trying to uncover: Whats causing a deadly disease to thrive at the expense of Kauais coral reefs?
A weak relationship was found between the abundance of the disease and water temperature, Christine Runyon, a graduate research assistant at University of Hawaiis Institute of Marine Biology, said at a news conference Wednesday on Oahu.
Its a far cry from determining a cause and effect. But the apparent...