摘要
潜水员们在硏究美属维尔京群岛附近的加勒比海群礁时,在一块礁石上注意到了令人惊恐的情况一一病变损伤正在侵蚀几百株珊瑚的彩色组织。第二天,一部分珊瑚死亡了,只留下光秃秃的白色骨骼。而剩下的珊瑚在2周后失去活力。不到4个月,圣托马斯岛附近的这块礁石上,超过一半的珊瑚都死了。
Divers noticed something alarming on one reef they were studying Caribbean reefs off the US Virgin Islands.Lesions were eating into the colorful tissues of hundreds of corals.By the next day,some were dead,only stark white skeletons remained.Others took two weeks to languish.Within four months,more than half of the reef near the island of St.Thomas was dead.
