Researchers at Charles Darwin University have found green turtles use coastal cues to help them migrate, and are not driven by ocean currents as scientists had believed, while they also found there is a lot more rubbish washing up on northern Australian beaches than previously thought.

CDU oceanographer Ruth Patterson said the study of “physical movement mechanisms of marine life and debris” had dispelled assumptions and helped to improve knowledge of the ‘data-limited’ Gulf of Carpentaria.

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