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Report: Great Barrier Reef Has Lost Half its Coral in Three Decades

Posted October 2nd, 2012 at 3:55 am (UTC-5)
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A new study has found that Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest living organism, has lost more than half its coral in the past three decades. Scientists from the Australian Institute of Marine Science say damage from cyclones and a population explosion of predatory “crown of thorns” starfish are mostly to blame for devastating […]

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