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Ship collisions and noise are pushing whales to the brink–but there’s a simple solution. Slowing down ships could save thousands of whales and other marine life.
Sign the petition urging leaders to commit to real ocean protection at the upcoming global summit! https://action.wemove.eu/sign/2024-6-because-our-planet-is-blue-EN?akid=s5599862..YDydxT 
#Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Whales #Petition
WeMove EuropeBecause Our Planet Is BlueThe Ocean is the Earth’s cradle of life, nourishing and connecting the entire planet. It is our strongest ally in coping with the climate crisis. We all depend on the balance and wellbeing of the endless blue. We all have the duty to take care for it. It’s time we stop hurting our wounded planet, start protecting it, and let it recover to become resilient and healthy again – because our planet is blue. Sign the OceanCare petition now!
First documented sighting of a group of bowhead whales in Canada's Churchill River Estuary https://phys.org/news/2025-03-documented-sighting-group-bowhead-whales.html #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 Estuary
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.
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.
"Whale songs rise and fall with food supply, study finds."
Mongabay Environmental News · Whale songs rise and fall with food supply, study finds.Each year, during summer and fall, large groups of baleen whales gather off the coast of California, U.S., to feast on krill and fish before heading south to breeding areas in the tropics. It’s a crucial time for whales to fatten up, and a new study suggests some whale species announce an abundance of food […]
Whale songs change with increase or decrease in food supply
Same
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/whale-songs-rise-and-fall-with-food-supply-study-finds/
Mongabay Environmental News · Whale songs rise and fall with food supply, study finds.Each year, during summer and fall, large groups of baleen whales gather off the coast of California, U.S., to feast on krill and fish before heading south to breeding areas in the tropics. It’s a crucial time for whales to fatten up, and a new study suggests some whale species announce an abundance of food […]
#Humpback #Whale Song Follows #ZipfsLaw, A Fundamental Law Of Human #Language
And some #whales exhibit Menzerath’s law even more strongly than humans.
#MenzerathsLaw and Zipf’s focus on this kind of streamlining. Menzerath’s is all about how longer words or vocalizations are more efficient if made up of shorter elements (like syllables or notes), while Zipf’s law states that common and shorter elements will be used more often in efficient language than longer, rarer ones.
https://www.iflscience.com/humpback-whale-song-follows-zipfs-law-a-fundamental-law-of-human-language-77978
IFLScience · Humpback Whale Song Follows Zipf’s Law, A Fundamental Law Of Human Language
#Whales move nutrients from Alaska to Hawaii in their urine, supporting tropical ecosystems https://phys.org/news/2025-03-whales-nutrients-alaska-hawaii-urine.html
Migrating #BaleenWhales transport high-latitude nutrients to tropical and subtropical ecosystems https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56123-2
"in oceans across the globe, great whales—including #RightWhales, #GrayWhales, and #humpbacks—transport about 4,000 tons of nitrogen each year to low-nutrient coastal areas in the tropics and subtropics. They also bring more than 45,000 tons of biomass"
Eye contact
"This moment of eye contact was beyond my wildest dreams. I’ve never encountered a whale like this one, and it was the most profoundly beautiful experience of my life."
Rachel Moore
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Watching whales and birds work together in a feeding frenzy in the middle of the Pacific Ocean was legitimately the best and most amazing thing I ever saw (and that was only above water.. below would have been incredible)
Whale keychain 
Original design, fully hand sewn and embroidered by me on high-quality felt! Attached to a 2cm bronze key ring with a sturdy blue cotton ribbon
Adopt one on my website https://evanskyarts.com/en/products/whale-keychain
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Sharing the planet winner: Sweet Girl’s Essence by Sina Ritter
Next time a bigot tells you queerness is against nature, show them this and said, whale actually
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/mating-male-humpbacks-1.7131511
And then after they’ve composed themselves, tell them ‘you’re whalecome’
Bigots don’t deserve whales tho, even if they’re humpbacks humping
CBCThese are the 1st images of humpbacks having sex, and they're both males | CBC RadioPhotographers Hawaii captured what scientists say is the first documentation of humpback whale sex.
What happens when whales die? Magic
Witness the Magic of Marine Life 
Experience the touching moment of a baby humpback whale resting safely under its mother’s watchful care. 
Explore more captivating baby whale moments: 
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Let’s unite to protect our oceans and the creatures that call them home. Together, we can make a difference. 
Eavesdropping on whale songs sparks new discoveries in ecology https://phys.org/news/2025-02-eavesdropping-whale-songs-discoveries-ecology.html #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Whales
Phys.org · Eavesdropping on whale songs sparks new discoveries in ecology
Commentary: #WaterProtectors on trial again as #Greenpeace case begins in #NorthDakota
by #WinonaLaDuke
February 24, 2025
Excerpt: "North Dakota v. USA
"In March of last year, I was a federal witness in the North Dakota v. United States of America trial in Bismarck, where North Dakota charged that the United States Army Corps of Engineers had caused the #StandingRock #resistance by issuing a conditional use permit for the flood plain. Attorneys asked if I came to Standing Rock resistance camp because the Army Corps issued a permit. My response: No. I came for the #water,and I came because #LaDonnaBraveBull Allard asked me to come. I came because #Enbridge, the Canadian #pipeline company, had proposed a Sandpiper #pipeline across our territory in northern Minnesota and we defeated them, only to find that they later financed 28% of the #DakotaAccessPipeline. I came for the water.
"#EnergyTransfer v. #Greenpeace
"There’s another big trial starting Monday in #MandanNorthDakota, too, in Morton County District Court. There, Judge James Gion will preside over a jury trial in the case of Energy Transfer v. Greenpeace. Energy Transfer charges that Greenpeace effectively orchestrated and was a force driving the Standing Rock resistance. That allegation is pretty surprising to the thousands of people who came to Standing Rock without even hearing about Greenpeace being there. That case will be heard behind #ClosedDoors, no livestreaming, and yet somehow a judge in a small county without a law clerk will make sure the justice of a jury trial is carried out. The case with a multitude of pretrial motions is described as the largest in North Dakota history, so carrying out justice, well that’s a challenge.
"'This is a pretty ludicrous accusation,' noted #DeepaPadmanabha, Greenpeace’s senior legal counsel, responding to charges that Greenpeace effectively orchestrated and was a force driving the Standing Rock resistance. 'Standing Rock was one of the largest #Indigenous-led protests in history. It was a grassroots-led resistance, and the idea that Greenpeace orchestrated it is a #racist attempt to erase #IndigenousHistory.'
"But it might be what you’d expect from a company whose CEO once said that protesters who damaged construction equipment should be 'removed from the gene pool.'
"I’d encourage you to watch the trial online, but unfortunately, Judge Gion has denied a motion to arrange for the trial to be streamed online.
"As The Wall Street Journal reported in September, 'both sides expect a #FossilFuel - friendly jury.' Check out the
'community' page on the company’s daplpipelinefacts.com website and you’ll understand why. There’s a picture of Mandan town employees appreciatively holding up a giant check representing Energy Transfer’s $3 million donation to upgrade the town’s library and other infrastructure.
"Energy Transfer is suing Greenpeace for damages, initially proposed at $300 million, in what Greenpeace has called an effort to bankrupt the organization. Greenpeace is the 50-year-old environmental organization which has been part of opposing #NuclearTesting in the Pacific, saving #whales from factory #trawlers, and challenging #BigOil. That’s something you are not supposed to do in North Dakota, it seems, where oil money slicks through all the systems. In North Dakota, the message seems to be, No one should oppose a pipeline project. No one."
Read more:
https://northdakotamonitor.com/2025/02/24/greenpeace-dakota-access-trial-commentary/
#WaterIsLife #StandWithStandingRock #NoDAPL #KelcyWarren #Trump #StandWithStandingRock
#CorporateColonialism
#BigOilAndGas #EnvironmentalRacism #StandingRock #SLAPPs #NoDAPL #WaterIsLife #SLAPPsLawsuits #SilencingDissent #ACAB #EnergyTransfer