Last week’s powerful Kona low storms, which caused catastrophic flooding on land, might also have devastated much of Hawaiʻi’s nearshore corals and reef fish, smothering them in tons of mud laced with pesticides and other toxic runoff, marine experts and conservation groups say. Divers have barely started to survey the damage below the surface, as … Continue reading Hawaiʻi’s Corals Were Struggling To Survive. Then Came The Mud Floods