These beloved sea creatures are dying. Can human medicine save them?

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These beloved sea creatures are dying. Can human medicine save them?

Danielle de Kool, an ecologist at an environmental organization in Bonaire called STINAPA, applies a medicinal paste to a boulder brain coral. Several meters underwater off the coast of Bonaire, a small island in the south Caribbean, Danielle de Kool floated in place in front of a large head of boulder brain coral. The pattern across its surface looked like the maze you might find on the back of a cereal box.  From a plastic syringe, de Kool, a…