“Moby Dick” in the Rhine: How a Beluga Whale Raised Awareness of Water Pollution in West Germany : Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History, Spring 2018, no. 6: “Moby Dick” in the Rhine: How a Beluga Whale Raised Awareness of Water Pollution in West Germany
In the 1960s the Rhine River was known as “the sewer of Europe,” its water unsafe to drink or swim in. In 1966, a stray beluga whale swam up and down the Lower Rhine for several weeks and quickly became a media celebrity. The whale developed dark patches on its white skin and the population became i...
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ftdatacite:10.5282/rcc/8222 2023-05-15T15:41:37+02:00 “Moby Dick” in the Rhine: How a Beluga Whale Raised Awareness of Water Pollution in West Germany : Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History, Spring 2018, no. 6: “Moby Dick” in the Rhine: How a Beluga Whale Raised Awareness of Water Pollution in West Germany Kleemann, Katrin 2018 text/html https://dx.doi.org/10.5282/rcc/8222 http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/8222/ en eng Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany This refers only to the text and does not include any image rights. Please click on an image to view its individual rights status. CC BY 4.0 2018 Katrin Kleemann https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY environmental movements infrastructure pollution air pollution animals whales cleanup coal industrialization mining rivers water water pollution Text article-journal Journal Article ScholarlyArticle 2018 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/8222 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z In the 1960s the Rhine River was known as “the sewer of Europe,” its water unsafe to drink or swim in. In 1966, a stray beluga whale swam up and down the Lower Rhine for several weeks and quickly became a media celebrity. The whale developed dark patches on its white skin and the population became increasingly worried about the whale’s well-being. The whale helped to raise awareness of the water pollution in this heavily industrialized region. In the following decades the Rhine was constantly improved and is today one of the cleanest rivers in Europe. Text Beluga Beluga whale Beluga* DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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In the 1960s the Rhine River was known as “the sewer of Europe,” its water unsafe to drink or swim in. In 1966, a stray beluga whale swam up and down the Lower Rhine for several weeks and quickly became a media celebrity. The whale developed dark patches on its white skin and the population became increasingly worried about the whale’s well-being. The whale helped to raise awareness of the water pollution in this heavily industrialized region. In the following decades the Rhine was constantly improved and is today one of the cleanest rivers in Europe. |
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“Moby Dick” in the Rhine: How a Beluga Whale Raised Awareness of Water Pollution in West Germany : Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History, Spring 2018, no. 6: “Moby Dick” in the Rhine: How a Beluga Whale Raised Awareness of Water Pollution in West Germany |
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