European Settlement Caused Collapse Of Great Barrier Reef Coral www.redorbit.com/media/uploads/2012/11/greatbarrierreef.jpg November 7, 2012 http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112727104/great-barrier-reef-collapse-110712/ [no comments yet] -- How Europeans have been killing off the Great Barrier Reef for 90 years i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/11/07/article-2229343-001CE0B100000258-25_634x463.jpg Run-off of pesticides and fertiliser from Queensland's farms have strangled native species of coral By the mid-Fifties the species that had dominated the reef for a thousand years had been wiped out 7 November 2012 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2229343/European-colonisation-Australia-killing-Great-Barrier-Reef-90-years--longer-thought.html [with comments] -- Coral autopsy reveals Great Barrier Reef collapse www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/dn22473/dn22473-1_300.jpg 07 November 2012 http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22473-coral-autopsy-reveals-great-barrier-reef-collapse.html [no comments yet] -- Palaeoecological evidence of a historical collapse of corals at Pelorus Island, inshore Great Barrier Reef, following European settlement November 7, 2012 http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/11/03/rspb.2012.2100 === Great Barrier Reef focus of international genome sequencing project cdn.idg.com.au/gim/id/65709/res/21 The Sea-quence project will study how corals respond to climate change, gathering the genomes of corals in the Great Barrier Reef and the Red Sea. 08 November, 2012 http://www.lifescientist.com.au/article/441331/great_barrier_reef_focus_international_genome_sequencing_project/ [no comments yet]