Sunday, October 22, 2017

Harvey runoff menaces Texas' coral reefs

10/22/2017 10:07 AM EDT

Adrienne Correa taking samples at a Flower Garden Banks reef

The more than 13 trillion gallons of floodwater from Hurricane Harvey have created a massive plume of freshwater in the Gulf of Mexico that is threatening the coral reefs of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary about 100 miles offshore of Galveston.


Full story at http://news.rice.edu/2017/10/13/harvey-runoff-menaces-texas-coral-reefs-2/

Source
Rice University


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