Whales and dolphins found in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for the first time
- Written by Chandra Salgado Kent, Associate Professor, School of Science, Edith Cowan University
Adult and infant sperm whales have been spotted in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.Inf-Lite Teacher/Flickr, CC BY-SA
Scientific research doesn’t usually mean being strapped in a harness by the open paratroop doors of a Vietnam-war-era Hercules plane. But that’s the situation I found myself in several years ago, the result of which has...
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