Sugars and Bacterial Growth Kill off Coral Reefs

By Pippa Wysong, Access ExcellenceSAN DIEGO (10/08/06) - Bacterial growth, stimulated by the presence of simple sugars in untreated sewage and agricultural runoff, can now be added to the list of things contributing to the demise of coral reefs.A study by researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and San Diego State University