Pharmaceuticals, thousands of mystery chemicals found in Great Barrier Reef’s turtles

Researchers are calling for urgent action after a study found thousands of unidentified chemicals on the Great Barrier Reef were being absorbed by green sea turtles, seagrass and coral.

The recent report by Queensland’s Griffith University and the World Wide Fund for Nature Australia tested three sites off Townsville in the state’s north and found more than 4,000 chemicals — many of which could not be identified — in seagrass, coral and, alarmingly,…