Sentences with phrase «washing over the reefs»

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Australian scientists have been in open disagreement since 1991 over whether nutrients washed into the sea in fertiliser runoff and sewage pose a danger to the reef and, if so, which nutrients cause the most damage.

As greenhouse gas pollution reshapes the invisible mosaic of seawater chemicals washing over Australia's Great Barrier Reef, corals there are being locked in escalating conflicts with each other for survival.

In pre-industrial times, 99.9 percent of the oceans that washed over coral reefs were comfortably above this threshold.