Environmental Impact Of Debbie's Violence
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT- What made Debbie’s violence so much worse was the fact she was moving extremely slow, whirling her way through the world famous north Queensland islands and the great barrier reef for more than 48 hours also adding to her destruction, her timing could not have been worse, coming just as it emerges that two-thirds of the reef has been bleached due to the climate change up in North Queensland. The assault on the pristine Whitsunday Islands has not stopped with a continuous battering to the coral, however. Heavy rain that fell during and after the cyclone is pushing massive amounts of nitrogen, sediment and debris pollution into reef waters. Flood plumes from the Gregory and Fitzroy rivers are heading out to sea while a deluge