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Alaska’s Marine Ecosystem Is Changing ‘Decades Too Early’ Due to Climate Crisis
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Belugas Are Dying off in Alaska and Oil and Gas Operations Are to Blame, Says Lawsuit
Yet another endangered southern resident orca is missing, and researchers fear he is dead.
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Iceland Didn’t Hunt Any Whales in 2019 — and Public Appetite for Whale Meat Is Fading
By Joe Roman
One of the most important global conservation events of the past year was something that didn't happen. For the first time since 2002, Iceland — one of just three countries that still allow commercial whaling — didn't hunt any whales, even though its government had approved whaling permits in early 2019.
First North Atlantic Right Whale Calf of the Season Spotted off Georgia Coast
A sperm whale that washed up on a Scottish beach with 220 pounds of trash in its stomach is the latest symbol of the plastic pollution crisis.
A new subspecies of fin whale, the second-largest species on Earth after the blue whale, has been discovered by scientists in the Pacific Ocean.
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Whales and Dolphins Found in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for the First Time
By Chandra Salgado Kent
Scientific research doesn't usually mean being strapped in a harness by the open paratroop doors of a Vietnam-war-era Hercules plane. But that's the situation I found myself in several years ago, the result of which has just been published in the journal Marine Biodiversity.
'Progressive Recovery' of 25K South Atlantic Humpback Whales. In 1950s there were 450
New research finds that the western South Atlantic humpback population is well on its way to recovering from the devastating impacts of commercial whaling.
When you have a whale-sized appetite, you need to figure out some pretty sophisticated feeding strategies. They mysteries of how a humpback whale traps so much prey have eluded scientists, until now.