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  • Coral ecologist Alison Jones has been examining several reefs in the Keppel Islands, an area in the reef's southern tail where floodwaters spilled into the sea, and found isolated damage to coral in waters less than 6 1/2 feet 2 meters deep.

    Floods Damage An Already Stressed Great Barrier Reef AP 2011

  • Coral ecologist Alison Jones has been examining several reefs in the Keppel Islands, an area in the reef's southern tail where floodwaters spilled into the sea, and found isolated damage to coral in waters less than 6 1/2 feet 2 meters deep.

    Floods Damage An Already Stressed Great Barrier Reef AP 2011

  • The reef's existence means that struggling, shallow ecosystems in the U.S.

    Puerto Rico Aims To Protect Newly Discovered Coral Reefs AP 2011

  • Coral ecologist Alison Jones has been examining several reefs in the Keppel Islands, an area in the reef's southern tail where floodwaters spilled into the sea, and found isolated damage to coral in waters less than 6 ½ feet deep.

    Australia's floods, cyclone stress Barrier Reef 2011

  • Coral ecologist Alison Jones has been examining several reefs in the Keppel Islands, an area in the reef's southern tail where floodwaters spilled into the sea, and found isolated damage to coral in waters less than 6 1/2 feet 2 meters deep.

    Floods Damage An Already Stressed Great Barrier Reef AP 2011

  • The reef's existence means that struggling, shallow ecosystems in the U.S.

    Puerto Rico Aims To Protect Newly Discovered Coral Reefs AP 2011

  • Coral ecologist Alison Jones has been examining several reefs in the Keppel Islands, an area in the reef's southern tail where floodwaters spilled into the sea, and found isolated damage to coral in waters less than 6 1/2 feet 2 meters deep.

    Floods Damage An Already Stressed Great Barrier Reef AP 2011

  • The next day, we took sea kayaks rigged for fishing to the dropoff, where we dunked bait for fish cruising the reef's edge.

    Baja: Fishing's Final Frontier 2008

  • Most of the reef's 273 species of fish seemed to be right underneath my dive boat when I plunged in.

    Special Report: Hidden Caribbean Forbes Life Staff 2010

  • With the decline of the Maya civilization, the reef's resources probably went largely unused for a number of centuries, although early Spanish explorers used the cayes to repair their boats and collect freshwater.

    Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System, Belize 2009

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