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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#Whale pee moves vital nutrients thousands of miles
'We often think of plants as the lungs of the planet. Animals are the circulatory system.’
Some new research found that great #whales—including right whales, gray whales, and humpbacks—transport roughly 4,000 tons of #nitrogen to low-nutrient coastal areas in the tropics and subtropics every single year. Described as the “great whale pee funnel.”
popsci.com/environment/whale-p

Popular Science · Whale pee moves vital nutrients thousands of miles'We often think of plants as the lungs of the planet. Animals are the circulatory system.’
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MediaFaro News Digest

The whaling season is cancelled for second consecutive year in Iceland.

Iceland's largest whaling company – Hvalur hf. – will not be hunting this season. This marks the second consecutive year that the company has opted out of whaling during the summer season.

The controversial practice of ‘whaling’, hunting and killing whales to extract and sell their meat is currently only permitted in Iceland, Norway and Japan.

mediafaro.org/article/20250413

A largely submerged whale. | Copyright Benny F. Nielsen/AP2010
Euronews · The whaling season is cancelled for second consecutive year in Iceland.By Malek Fouda
#Iceland#Whaling#Norway
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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖

It was confirmed yesterday that Hvalur hf will not hunt fin whales this summer 💙

According to Kristján Loftsson, it’s because of the situation with the Japanese markets (no buyers) as well as the tariff race which is not improving the situation.

We celebrate these news and are happy to know that fin whales will not be hunted in Iceland for the second year in a row 🐋

~ Styngvi

#Styngvi #Iceland #SaveOurSeas #Whales 🐋

Delicate drawing of the eye of a whale in blue and purple tones Fin whales will swim freely around Iceland this summer by Styngvi art | activism
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Tio

What It’s REALLY Like on a Dolphin Research Expedition - videos.trom.tf/w/qAPES3ALtu17v…

Very well made video. I like when Mara narrates actually, it is quite easy to listen/follow. Plus maybe you can focus more on what you film, edit, the story?

Very interesting project. But I was also wondering how do they support the project? How did you guys join them? Did you pay? Did they train all of those other people for free?

@sober_pirate

PeerTubeWhat It’s REALLY Like on a Dolphin Research ExpeditionBy Be Brave To Act
#nature#research#volunteer
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Kate :verigold:

First documented sighting of a group of bowhead whales in Canada's Churchill River Estuary phys.org/news/2025-03-document 🐋 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Whales

*Article's header image is of beluga whales. Like it's hard to find a picture of a Bowhead on Wikimedia! SMH.

Phys.org · First documented sighting of a group of bowhead whales in Canada's Churchill River EstuaryBy Nicole Macdonell
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Mongabay

Scientists have combined passive acoustic monitoring, machine-learning tools and aerial surveys to estimate the population of North Atlantic right whales in Cape Cod Bay.

Using the method, researchers from Cornell University in the U.S. were able to estimate the daily population of the whales over a period of four months.

By Abhishyant Kidangoor
news.mongabay.com/2025/03/coun

Mongabay Environmental News · Counting whales by eavesdropping on their chatter, with help from machine learningWhat better way to track whales than listening in on them? Passive acoustic monitoring, in which microphones are placed underwater to pick up any sounds, has long helped scientists detect the presence, or absence, of whales in oceans. More often than not, however, the method isn’t that great at estimating the population of whales. To […]
#News#Conservation#Environment
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Longreads

"I love this notion: that in vast seas and the absence of cues, the space between whales became the point of focus."

In this excerpt from her new essay collection, Christina Rivera explores nature, the flowing relationships between things, and the missing language we need amid a time of change: longreads.com/2025/03/13/langu

Longreads · QuieseedsBy Christina Rivera
#Longreads#Books#Sea
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Flipboard Science Desk

From @ScienceAlert: Baleen whales undertake some of the longest yearly migrations, with humpbacks travelling up to 8,300 km (about 5,150 miles) from Antarctica to warmer wintering grounds. With them, the whales shuttle resources from nutrient-rich polar regions to the less resourced warmer regions of the oceans. Amazingly enough, a huge amount of this nutrient distribution comes from whale urine, which disperses nitrogen and other elements through the ocean when nature inevitably calls.

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ScienceAlert · Whale Pee Transports Nutrients Across Thousands of Miles, Study RevealsGreat rivers of whale pee make a remarkable contribution to Earth's cycling of nutrients, a new study reveals.
#Science#Oceans#Whales
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Chris Corrigan

The Great Whale Conveyer Belt | Nautilus

nautil.us/the-great-whale-conv

It's well known that salmon transfer ocean nitrogen from the sea to the forests, to the extent that 30% of the nitrogen in BC forests historically arrives that way.

But the whale transfer of nutrients is a whole other things. Sysco of the Seas!

Nautilus · The Great Whale Conveyor BeltThe loss of whales has weakened the longest food chain on the planet
#cclinks#whales#humpbacks
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