A new study, led by the University of Georgia, solves the mystery of the dying Caribbean coral—as April Flowers reports in this article for redorbit.com.

Plunk down a wastewater treatment plant anywhere along a Caribbean coast and watch the coral reefs nearby start dying, by a means unknown to science.

“You’d have all the makings of a great mystery novel,” says ecologist James Porter of the University of Georgia.

Unlike a novel, however, this story is true.

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