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DDT and other banned chemicals pose a threat to vulnerable dolphins on Great Barrier Reef

One tissue sample taken from a female humpback dolphin had concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) – banned in Australia since 1975 – that were among the highest recorded in the scientific literature. Read more

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