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Marine life in a South African bay is full of chemical pollutants

In a 1974 Scientific American article, the oceanographer Willard Bascom wrote that “the ocean is the plausible place for man to dispose of some of his wastes”. If done “thoughtfully”, he continued, “it will do no damage to marine life.” But it hasn’t been done thoughtfully.

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