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Recent whale deaths highlight risks from Antarctica's booming krill fishery

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Taken together, the whale deaths …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Russia and China block every proposal at Antarctic marine life conservation conference in Hobart

ABC

Russia and China have been accused of blocking every proposal at an international conference tasked with conserving Antarctic marine life. Key proposals presented at the meeting included establishing new marine protected areas in the waters surrounding Antarctica and revisions to the krill fishery management plan. China and Russia have been accused of blocking proposals relating to new marine protected areas …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Krill oil, magnesium, natural Ozempic: Debunking supplements

Slate

Go to the supplement aisle at the grocery store, and the options are endless. Supplements can be used for health and wellness, but it’s important to know the facts before buying the next trendy capsule, pill, tincture, or gummy. On this week’s episode of Well, Now Maya and Kavita give you helpful tools to decide what supplements are worth the …

4 months, 3 weeks ago

What is krill oil and what are the benefits?

The Independent

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1 year, 2 months ago

Qingdao targets marine industry development

China Daily

Megaprojects form foundation for expansion Qingdao of East China's Shandong province is pursuing a slew of megaprojects to accelerate the development of its maritime industry. The company is currently working on a project for the 712th Research Institute of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, aiming to build the nation's largest comprehensive electric power system test laboratory and electric ship propulsion system …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Antarctica is missing an area of sea ice the size of Greenland in a ‘shocking’ climate trend

The Independent

Even in an era of alarming climate records, a worrying slew of milestones has already been passed in 2023 as our planet warms. “If you took an average of sea ice extent around the coast, the sea ice would extend around 1,000km out from the coast, but this year the recordings mean it’s about 100km further back than in a …

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1 year, 8 months ago

The secret lives of Antarctic whales: how to balance tourism and conservation on a bucket-list trip

The Independent

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Through a partnership between WWF Australia and adventure tour operator Intrepid Travel, the scientists on board our expedition cruise ship …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Bob Brown Foundation, Sea Shepherd Global say krill super trawlers 'ploughing' through whale pods

ABC

Two environmental groups are calling for krill fishing to be outlawed, saying super trawlers are endangering pods of whales in the Southern Ocean. Key points: The Shen Lan and Fong La ships were filmed by activists near the South Orkney Islands, in the Southern Ocean, off the Antarctic Peninsula An academic says there are concerns about the potential for super …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Russia, China block plans for Antarctic marine protections

The Hindu

Russia and China have again blocked plans supported by the European Union, the United States and 23 other nations to protect three vast stretches of ocean around Antarctica from most fishing. Those included an agreement on new protections for krill fishing and a commitment to meet in Chile next year to further discuss the proposal for the new marine protected …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Russia, China block plans for Antarctic marine protections

The Independent

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2 years, 1 month ago

Scientists calculate how much plastic whales are eating

The Independent

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Large filter feeders like baleen whales evolved to process and filter vast amounts of the ocean,” Jeremy Goldbogen, one …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Blue whales found to swallow 10 million microplastic pieces daily

India Today

As Earth's largest animals, blue whales are mighty big eaters, gulping tons of food each day. Blue whales, according to the study, may swallow roughly 10 million microplastic pieces daily, or up to about 95 pounds of plastic. For fin whales, whose main prey also is krill, the estimated daily tally is about 6 million microplastic pieces, or up to …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Blue whales dance with the wind to find food, new study shows

The Independent

Tracking blue whales by their booming vocalisations has shown how they dance with the wind to find food. In a new study, published in Ecology Letters, researchers explained how they used a directional hydrophone – an underwater microphone– at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute’s observatory to listen for the sounds of the blue whales. MBARI researchers used these sounds to …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Beneath the ice

ABC

Krill are essential to understanding climate change. It's here that Antarctic krill are performing a role that heavy industry and governments across the world are investing billions of dollars trying to mimic — carbon capture and storage. Dr Anna Belcher, an ecological biogeochemist at the British Antarctic Survey, said krill provide a "highway for the transport of carbon deeper in …

Climate Change Water Ice Ship Carbon Sea Scientists

2 years, 11 months ago

Nature: Biologists determine how whales gulp down food underwater without drowning

Daily Mail

Lunge-feeding baleen whales have an 'oral plug' in their mouths that helps them to gulp down food underwater without drowning in the process, a study has found. As the marine mammals thrust though the ocean taking in vast volumes of krill bearing water, this fleshy bulb seals off the airways to stop water entering the lungs. Lunge-feeding baleen whales have …

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3 years, 6 months ago

‘Why do those two clash?’ Inside the legendary Gerrit Cole-Trevor Bauer rivalry at UCLA

New York Times

As the baseball bounded into foul territory, tracking toward the left-field corner at Jackie Robinson Stadium in Los Angeles, the two competitors would bolt from the home dugout. “I was like, ‘F— you, Gerrit,’” Bauer said. “We sat at LAX for an hour,” Weiss says, laughing, “because they lost his javelin.” The first time Bauer’s shoulder tube went missing in …

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4 years, 4 months ago

313 million-year-old fossil footprints at Grand Canyon are the oldest of their kind found at park

CNN

CNN — Finding fossil footprints at the Grand Canyon isn’t particularly unusual. But a discovery made by a geology professor turned out to be a bigger deal than he could have imagined: what he stumbled upon were the oldest vertebrate fossil tracks ever found at Grand Canyon National Park – about 313 million years old. Geologist Allan Krill, a visiting …

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Recent whale deaths highlight risks from Antarctica's booming krill fishery

Russia and China block every proposal at Antarctic marine life conservation conference in Hobart

Krill oil, magnesium, natural Ozempic: Debunking supplements

What is krill oil and what are the benefits?

Qingdao targets marine industry development

Antarctica is missing an area of sea ice the size of Greenland in a ‘shocking’ climate trend

The secret lives of Antarctic whales: how to balance tourism and conservation on a bucket-list trip

Bob Brown Foundation, Sea Shepherd Global say krill super trawlers 'ploughing' through whale pods

Russia, China block plans for Antarctic marine protections

Russia, China block plans for Antarctic marine protections

Scientists calculate how much plastic whales are eating

Blue whales found to swallow 10 million microplastic pieces daily

Blue whales dance with the wind to find food, new study shows

Beneath the ice

Nature: Biologists determine how whales gulp down food underwater without drowning

‘Why do those two clash?’ Inside the legendary Gerrit Cole-Trevor Bauer rivalry at UCLA

313 million-year-old fossil footprints at Grand Canyon are the oldest of their kind found at park