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Reuters: Australia's devastating floods are flushing toxic, pesticide-laden sediment into the Great Barrier Reef, and could threaten fragile corals and marine life in the world's largest living organism, environmentalists said on Monday.
Flood plumes from the swollen Fitzroy and Burnett rivers in Queensland state had muddied reef waters as far as the Keppel Island Group, about 40 km (24 miles) offshore, at the southern end of the World Heritage-listed reef.
"Toxic pollution from flooded farms and towns......
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Floods threaten Australia’s Great Barrier Reef
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 10th, 2011
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