Australia’s Great Barrier Reef at Risk from Uranium Exports

KEVIN GRANDIA — Now the largest and most well-known of these reefs, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of the province of Queensland, is under threat of becoming a shipping route for uranium—the radioactive substance used for …

[source: http://ecowatch.com/2013/australias-great-barrier-reef-at-risk-from-uranium-exports/]