A pilot dragged his passenger to safety and buried him neck-deep in sand to protect him from hypothermia Sunday night after their helicopter crashed in crocodile-infested mudflats in Australia’s Northern Territory. “The pilot thought that in this remote location, nobody would find them
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What Is Killing Chile’s Coastal Wildlife?
First, in late March the bodies of about 1,200 penguins were found on a remote beach in southern Chile. Next came the sardines millions of them washed up dead on a nearby stretch of coastline in April, causing a stench so noxious that nearby schools were closed and the army was called in to shovel piles of rotting fish off the sand.