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Aggressive seaweed smothers one of world's most remote reefs

by Associated Press
| July 7, 2020 11:03 AM

HONOLULU (AP) — Researchers say a recently discovered species of seaweed is killing large patches of coral on once-pristine reefs and is rapidly spreading across one of the most remote and protected ocean environments on earth.

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