The Scottish Government and Scottish Green Party have pledged to designate 10 percent of the country’s seas as Highly Protected Marine Areas, offering depleted ecosystems a chance to bounce back. It's a complicated task.
By 1976 some 270 orcas were captured — many multiple times — in the Salish Sea, the transboundary waters between the U.S. and Canada, according to historian Jason Colby at the University of Victoria. At least 12 of those orcas died during capture, and m...
Orcas (or killer whales) have exhibited mourning or grief after their calves have been taken away or died in front of them. This grief can manifest itself as crying vocalizations to locate her lost baby. Other examples in the wild include a mother orca carrying around her deceased calf while...
settlement, then slap their tails to alert the humans to ready the harpoons. (in exchange for their help, the orcas got first dibs on their favorite cuts, the lips and tongue.) meanwhile, in the icy waters of beringia, inupiat people listened and spoke to bowhead whales before their ...
died tragically, after reaching the South Pole only todiscover that Norwegian Roald Amundsen had beaten them to it. Levick andothers survived. He overwintered in an ice cave alongside a rookery in CapeAdare, thus becoming an eyewitness to the penguin breeding cycle; indeed,he came to know ...
people who just do it for fun, they crave it, they miss it. The dopamine feels good. When the waves are flat, or they can't get to the water. They, they crave it and they miss it. And they...
But it's hard to say exactly how many poppy seeds you'd have to eat to test positive, because the concentration of morphine in poppy seeds can vary quite a lot, Nelson said. In addition, labs use different cutoffs for a "positive" result, and a lower cutoff would be more likely to...
the most part floated them to where they needed to go. On several occasions, the winds died and the fleet stalled. Without the drift of the currents moving them forward, the men probably would have died of starvation, or would have revolted against Magellan and his few supporters on board...
the most part floated them to where they needed to go. On several occasions, the winds died and the fleet stalled. Without the drift of the currents moving them forward, the men probably would have died of starvation, or would have revolted against Magellan and his few supporters on board...