Hundreds of Species Hitched a Ride Across the Pacific Aboard 2011 Tsunami Debris

Yale e360
Sep 28, 2017, 2:17 pm131 pts
When a magnitude 9 earthquake shook the western Pacific Ocean floor and sent a tsunami crashing into Japan in 2011, millions of pieces of debris — from docks and fishing boats to plastic pollution — were swept out to sea. Now, a new study finds that nearly 300 species hitchhiked aboard that debris across…

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