It’s a Gull-Eat-Whale World Out There, Thanks to People
A month ago ecologist Leah Gerber asked our readers to consider a biodiversity conundrum—in preserving a natural habitat,…
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Whales
19 posts
Freeing Tangled Leviathans: The Whale Wrangler
The world’s largest animals get snarled in every kind of sea gear that has rope—mooring lines, gillnets, shrimp pots, anchors. Scott Landry figures out how to wrestle them free.
Saving Whales by Putting a Price on Their Tail?
Scientists suggest that tradable harvest quotas may reduce the slaughter of whales.
New Answers to Whale of a Mystery
Biologist Graham Slater explains that the evolution of whales into behemoths of the sea occurred in evolutionary spurts and not in a slow and steady process.
Whales and Angels in Marine Protected Areas
Mexico’s Sea of Cortez has always had a wealth of whales, but even protected areas can’t stave off other pressures on the leviathans.
Rerouting Gray Whales By Audio
Researchers are testing a new technology to protect whales from human enterprises by rerouting them.
Right Whales, Wrong Place
The good news is that endangered whales can be found where they were thought extinct. The bad news is that a sea-going superhighway may soon overtake their unknown refuge.
The Future Is Not Plastics
Letters to the editor: Decompartmentalizing right whales, vinclozolin, bisphenol A, krill and a few other things.
Slow: Whale Xing
Biologist Christopher Clark builds sonic buoys that help ships avoid running down the last of the right whales.