How about a flounder in a harbour? In a study published last week in the journal Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts declared that flounder in Boston’s once notoriously polluted harbour are now tumour-free. It’s turnaround from the late 1980s, when more than three-quarters of the species in Boston Harbor were found to have signs of liver disease, including cancerous tumors. Moore has been monitoring harbour flounder since 1986, when the poor health of the once-bountiful, bottom-feeding fish became emblematic of the harbour’s broader environmental challenges. “The clean-up of Boston Harbor is the greatest environmental achievement of this generation.”

Source: National Post November 29, 2018 18:45 UTC