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Queensland floods hit Great Barrier Reef

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Corals threatened by huge volume of polluted fresh water pulsing into World Heritage Site.

The floods that have devastated swathes of southern Queensland are beginning to perturb one of the world's largest World Heritage Sites, the Great Barrier Reef, scientists in Australia say.

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  1. Fabricius, K. E., Okaji, K. & De'ath, G. Coral Reefs 29, 593-605 (2010).

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Mitchell Crow, J. Queensland floods hit Great Barrier Reef. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.21

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