Cancer in Wildlife May Signal Toxic Dangers

Friday, August 28, 2009 - 23:36 in Biology & Nature

Thirty years ago, a Canadian marine biologist noticed something mysterious was happening to beluga whales in the St. Lawrence Estuary. Decades of over-hunting had decimated the population, but several years after the government put a stop to the practice, the belugas still hadn’t recovered. [More]

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