This is FRESH AIR, our weekly program devoted to the environment. What happens when 28,000rubber ducks and other bath toys are accidentally dumped in the ocean? Where do the oceancurrents take them, and what environmental impact do the ducks and other ocean junk have onthe seas?That’s what our guest, the journalist Donovan Hahn, investigated in his book “Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and the Beachcombers, Oceanographers,Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, WhoWent in Search of Them”
In the following conversation you are going to hear some new words. Read and listen to them. Make sure you know what they mean.
to end up / deck / to stack / to maneuver
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