‘Death and destruction': Labor at sea on marine crisis
A climate change-fuelled algal bloom has killed tens of thousands of fish, stingrays, sharks and other sea life in South Australian waters in recent months – many of which have begun to wash up on Adelaide's metropolitan beaches.
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