Decompression sickness in whales and Aussie bushfire smoke circumnavigates globe

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Deep and dangerous – Why marine mammals usually don’t suffer from decompression sickness, unless anthropogenic (human induced) noise interferes

Smoky and agile – How NASA is currently tracking the movement of Australia’s bushfire smoke around the globe

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Visualisation of smoke plume crossing Atlantic Ocean. Source: earthobservatory.nasa.gov. Using GEOS forward processing model

References:
https://www.health.harvard.edu/…/decompression-sickness-a-t…

https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/…/the-bends-anatom…/

https://scitechdaily.com/world-path-of-smoke-and-aerosols-…/

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/…/aussie-smoke-plumes-cro…