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Threats to whales. .(Brief Article)
Environmentalists are now seeking to have a group of orcas (otherwise called killer whales) off the coast of British Columbia declared an endangered species in the United States because the whales are threatened by toxic pollution of the ocean.
The blubber of one orca that washed up dead near the US border 3 years ago was so contaminated with the deadly chemical PCB that the body qualified as "pathogenic waste." Ironically, it is illegal to dump pathogenic waste at sea.
The orcas in question are already on the ...
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