An international team led by a JCU scientist has found that contact with Plastic waste massively increases the chance of disease in corals. Dr. Lamb performing Reef surveys on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia [Credit: John Rumney]Dr Joleah Lamb, from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies based at JCU, led the study reported in the journal Science. "We examined more than 120,000 corals, both plastic-free and with...

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