Scientists use satellites to track whale strandings in remote places from space

In 2015, the remote coastal fjords of southern Patagonia turned into a whale graveyard.

That June, scientists found 337 dead and decomposing sei whales, a species of baleen whale, on the beaches between the Gulf of Penas and Puerto Natales in Chile.

Researchers flew over the area, then took samples from the rotting bodies, trying […]