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National Public Radio: IRA FLATOW, HOST:
This is SCIENCE FRIDAY, I'm Ira Flatow. Australia's Great Barrier Reef is in trouble. In the last 27 years, the world's largest coral reef system has lost 50 percent of its coral cover, and if this trend continues, the amount of coral could halve again by 2022.
According to researchers at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, 10 percent of the loss was from coral bleaching, which is primarily caused by warming ocean temperatures; 48 percent from storm damage; and 42......
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Starfish Blamed For Great Barrier Reef Coral Loss
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 5th, 2012
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