News Headline
A Grand Unified Theory of Unhealthy Microbiomes
Source
The Atlantic
Publication Date
2017-08-25
In 2012, Rebecca Vega Thurber looked at the results of the large underwater experiment she had been running for three years—and was disappointed.Since 2009, her team had been traveling to the coral reefs of the Florida Keys. In some spots, they exposed the corals to nitrogen and phosphorus, to simulate the agricultural runoffs that often pollute these reefs.