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Tropical Far North high risk for Great Barrier Reef pollution
Cairns Post
12 July 2013
THE Wet Tropics has been identified as the highest risk area for water pollutants entering the Great Barrier Reef leading to coral bleaching, a new report has found.
A group of 12 scientists from James Cook University, Central Queensland University, government agencies and private consultancies led the recent investigation into the Reef's water quality as part of the Reef Water Quality Protection Plan 2013. Read More
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