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June 19, 2014 11:00 pm GMT

What the Great Barrier Reef Looks Like After a Monstrous Cyclone

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Areas of the lovely Great Barrier Reef are missing.

In April, Tropical Cyclone Ita, a Category 5 storm with 105 mile per hour winds, hit northern Queensland in Australia. Just off the coast of Queensland lies the Great Barrier Reef, which also experienced Ita's wrath

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On Monday, the Catlin Seaview Survey, an organization dedicated to documenting the world's declining coral reefs, reported the devastating damages the cyclone had on the famed reef. The Catlin Seaview Survey sent a team of divers to assess the initial damages. Read more...

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