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Time Magazine: Environmentalists and politicians alike went wild this month when a Chinese shipping vessel plowed at full speed into the delicate corals of Australia's protected Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Damage to the Douglas Shoal, one of the 2,900 reefs in the 133,000-sq.-mi. (350,000 sq km) marine park, covered an area equivalent to five football fields, leaving a vast, empty plain of sand where a healthy coral community had hosted a variety of unique plants and animals. But marine ......
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Australia: Grounded ships: Just one threat to the Great Barrier Reef
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 21st, 2010
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