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A reef already under stress

2014-02-05 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: With a plan to dump dredge sediment on part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park set to go ahead, Joel Werner reports on the threats to the already fragile ecosystem and the scientists working to save it. 'Coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef is half of what it was 27 years ago.' Katharina Fabricius, a Principal Research Scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), pins the blame for that sobering statistic mainly on storms, crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks and coral...

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