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European Settlement Caused Collapse Of Great Barrier Reef Coral

November 7, 2012
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112727104/great-barrier-reef-collapse-110712/ [no comments yet]


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How Europeans have been killing off the Great Barrier Reef for 90 years

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]


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Coral autopsy reveals Great Barrier Reef collapse

07 November 2012
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22473-coral-autopsy-reveals-great-barrier-reef-collapse.html [no comments yet]


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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


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Great Barrier Reef focus of international genome sequencing project

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]