Researchers said the flood run-off, which likely included nitrogen and pesticide chemicals, were flowing as far as outer-shelf reefs 60 kilometres from the Queensland coast, piling pressure on coral already stressed by an unprecedented run of recent mass bleaching events.

What deniers like Andrew Bolt and Tony Abbott call “normal” (ODT)

via Great Barrier Reef hit by ‘extraordinarily large’ muddy flood plume – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)