An ambitious project for a sensor network to map pollution and its effects on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is to be launched within the next few months. It could provide evidence that will finally settle controversy about the effect of pollution on the reef.
The impact of pollutants such as fertiliser run-off entering the waters around the reef has been hotly disputed, with some researchers arguing the reef’s health has been misrepresented by conservationists as a way of forcing people to take climate change seriously (Â鶹´«Ã½, 4 January 2003, p 8).
In the first stage of the project,…
