#whales — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #whales, aggregated by home.social.
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Scientists discover how narwhals grow nature's only straight tusk https://phys.org/news/2026-08-scientists-narwhals-nature-straight-tusk.html 🐋 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Whales #Science #Narwhal
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Poisons not "Climate Change" poisons will be our end.
https://waynebisset.wordpress.com/2026/08/03/big-five-wars-the-butterfly-effect/
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Could a whale really swallow a human? We asked a biologist.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.popsci.com/science/could-a-whale-swallow-a-human-whalefall/
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2 more beluga whales die at Chicago aquarium, including 1 recently rescued from Canada
CHICAGO — Two more beluga whales have died at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium, including one that was rehomed at…
#Canada #Animals #Generalnews #Science #U.S.News #Whales
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Two more beluga whales die at Chicago aquarium
CHICAGO (AP) — Two more beluga whales have died at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium, including one that was rehomed…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #Animals #Canada #Chicago #Generalnews #ILStateWire #Illinois #JoanneThompson #ontario #Science #U.S.news #Whales
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Two more beluga whales die at Chicago aquarium
CHICAGO (AP) — Two more beluga whales have died at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium, including one that was rehomed…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #Animals #Canada #Chicago #Generalnews #ILStateWire #Illinois #JoanneThompson #ontario #Science #U.S.news #Whales
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⟦Karasek et al.⟧ Respiration Patterns of Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis) Mothers and Calves in Southern Brazil https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mms.70270?af=R 🐋 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Whales #Science
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⟦Karasek et al.⟧ Respiration Patterns of Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis) Mothers and Calves in Southern Brazil https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mms.70270?af=R 🐋 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Whales #Science
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⟦Karasek et al.⟧ Respiration Patterns of Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis) Mothers and Calves in Southern Brazil https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mms.70270?af=R 🐋 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Whales #Science
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⟦Karasek et al.⟧ Respiration Patterns of Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis) Mothers and Calves in Southern Brazil https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mms.70270?af=R 🐋 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Whales #Science
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⟦Karasek et al.⟧ Respiration Patterns of Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis) Mothers and Calves in Southern Brazil https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mms.70270?af=R 🐋 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Whales #Science
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You know what food stuffs have high levels of iron and not cruelty? Broccoli, spinach, kale, dried fruits! FFS
Whaling company announces intent to create iron supplements https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/icelandic-whaling-company-announces-intent-to-create-iron-supplements-from-meat/ 🐋 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Whales #Science #Whaling #AnimalCruelty
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Is anyone here in #Andalusia, #Spain from 17.9.26 to 17.10.26. I will be #backpacking then to explore #culture and #nature there and would love to see where #Lynx 🐈 and #whales live 🐬 .
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🦊🐋 #Indohyus was a #fox-sized, semi-aquatic mammal that lived in and around the coast of an island #India 49 to 45 million years ago.
#Fossil evidence, including a #skull accidentally broken in the lab in 2007, showed whale-like inner-ear #bones that placed it as the closest non-whale relative of all modern #whales. It gave rise to #Pakicetus and a chain of increasingly aquatic ancestors leading to today’s toothed and #baleen whales.
👉 https://www.discoverwildlife.com/prehistoric-life/indohyus
#evolution #paleontology #cetaceans #eocene #marine #biology #animals #wildlife #mammals #hippos #bluewhales #dogs #pigs
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🦇🧠 A 2021 study found #blind and sighted people can learn click #echolocation in just 10 weeks.
Follow up scans by #Durham University researchers showed structural changes in the #brain’s visual cortex. A separate 2025 study examined how 30 million years of echolocation #evolution shaped dolphin and whale brains.
👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-can-echolocate-and-it-changes-the-wiring-of-the-brain
#neuroplasticity #science #biology #humanbody #sound #adaptation #learning #neuroscience #dolphins #whales #disability #humans #animals #bats
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🦇🧠 A 2021 study found #blind and sighted people can learn click #echolocation in just 10 weeks.
Follow up scans by #Durham University researchers showed structural changes in the #brain’s visual cortex. A separate 2025 study examined how 30 million years of echolocation #evolution shaped dolphin and whale brains.
👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-can-echolocate-and-it-changes-the-wiring-of-the-brain
#neuroplasticity #science #biology #humanbody #sound #adaptation #learning #neuroscience #dolphins #whales #disability #humans #animals #bats
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🦇🧠 A 2021 study found #blind and sighted people can learn click #echolocation in just 10 weeks.
Follow up scans by #Durham University researchers showed structural changes in the #brain’s visual cortex. A separate 2025 study examined how 30 million years of echolocation #evolution shaped dolphin and whale brains.
👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-can-echolocate-and-it-changes-the-wiring-of-the-brain
#neuroplasticity #science #biology #humanbody #sound #adaptation #learning #neuroscience #dolphins #whales #disability #humans #animals #bats
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🦇🧠 A 2021 study found #blind and sighted people can learn click #echolocation in just 10 weeks.
Follow up scans by #Durham University researchers showed structural changes in the #brain’s visual cortex. A separate 2025 study examined how 30 million years of echolocation #evolution shaped dolphin and whale brains.
👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-can-echolocate-and-it-changes-the-wiring-of-the-brain
#neuroplasticity #science #biology #humanbody #sound #adaptation #learning #neuroscience #dolphins #whales #disability #humans #animals #bats
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🦇🧠 A 2021 study found #blind and sighted people can learn click #echolocation in just 10 weeks.
Follow up scans by #Durham University researchers showed structural changes in the #brain’s visual cortex. A separate 2025 study examined how 30 million years of echolocation #evolution shaped dolphin and whale brains.
👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-can-echolocate-and-it-changes-the-wiring-of-the-brain
#neuroplasticity #science #biology #humanbody #sound #adaptation #learning #neuroscience #dolphins #whales #disability #humans #animals #bats
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Endangered #rightwhales could wait almost a decade for new #US protections
New protections for endangered right #whales in #Atlantic postponed for nearly a decade under a plan that cleared a key hurdle in Washington with support of fishing and lobster industries.
Environmentalists say this could spell end for the vanishing whales, which can drown after getting tangled up in fishing gear or being struck by boats. There are only about 380 #NorthAtlantic right whales left.
https://apnews.com/article/right-whales-fishing-seafood-lobster-f84bc73f061ced0fffbef408caf947d8 -
💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐋⚓ Sperm whales near #Dominica shorten their click sequences and shift their vowel-like #sounds when #ships are present, according to researchers from #ProjectCETI and #UCBerkeley.
The team analyzed over 1,000 codas from 15 #whales over four years, finding that rhythm and click timing best predict nearby #vessels. The findings add to efforts to decode whale #language and understand how human noise affects #marine life.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/sperm-whales-change-communication-ships/
#spermwhales #cetaceans #animals #communication #bioacoustics #science #conservation #mammals #animalbehavior #linguistics #research
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Whales speak in sentences.
Sperm whales specifically have a diverse vocal repertoire, using sequences of clicks known as codas, and it looks like these codes form larger sequential stractures.Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09524622.2026.2684665
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Whales speak in sentences.
Sperm whales specifically have a diverse vocal repertoire, using sequences of clicks known as codas, and it looks like these codes form larger sequential stractures.Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09524622.2026.2684665
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Whales speak in sentences.
Sperm whales specifically have a diverse vocal repertoire, using sequences of clicks known as codas, and it looks like these codes form larger sequential stractures.Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09524622.2026.2684665
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Whales speak in sentences.
Sperm whales specifically have a diverse vocal repertoire, using sequences of clicks known as codas, and it looks like these codes form larger sequential stractures.Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09524622.2026.2684665
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Whales speak in sentences.
Sperm whales specifically have a diverse vocal repertoire, using sequences of clicks known as codas, and it looks like these codes form larger sequential stractures.Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09524622.2026.2684665
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐋🗣️ Sperm #whales in the #Mediterranean are splitting into two dialect groups: eastern whales clicking faster, western whales clicking slower, according to researchers.
By studying over 5,000 recordings from #Greece and #Spain, scientists discovered distinct regional accents.
👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/whales-appear-to-be-evolving-a-new-dialect-in-the-mediterranean-sea
#spermwhales #animals #communication #culture #cetaceans #bioacoustics #marinebiology #evolution #nature #science #mammals #wildlife
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Different sperm whale ‘dialects’ detected on separate sides of the Mediterranean | Whales | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/24/sperm-whale-dialects-detected-mediterranean#Nature #Animals #Whales #Communication #AnimalCommunication
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐋🦐 #Water buoyancy freed #whales from #gravity’s limits, and the cold #ocean pushed them to grow bigger to stay warm.
Researchers showed the key was krill: a single mouthful gives blue whales 200 times the #energy they use to lunge, a payoff only possible at giant sizes.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/why-blue-whales-largest-animal/
#bluewhales #evolution #science #biology #mammals #climate #iceage #migration #stanford #louisiana
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New #research aims to bring underwater noise’s true impact on killer whales into focus.
Extended periods of time at sea are necessary to collect the data that will bring us closer to understanding – and protecting – killer whales.Our #cetacean #scientists are preparing for an ambitious 2026 field season aboard Raincoast’s Sailing Vessel Achiever. #RaincoastConservationFoundation has joined forces with #EarthSpeciesProject , a #nonprofit research lab using machine learning to advance our understanding of #AnimalCommunication. At the heart of this project is a deceptively simple idea: to watch and listen at the same time. The team aims to uncover how killer whales use sound to coordinate movements, share prey, and maintain social bonds – to ultimately understand and mitigate how noise pollution interferes with these processes.
https://www.raincoast.org/2026/04/underwater-noises-true-impact/
#UnderwaterNoise #orcas #KillerWhales #whales #MarineBiology #MarineMammals #ProtectTheWild #WildFirst #nature #wildlife #SentientBeings #Communication #NoisePollution #HumanImpact #IndustrialImpacts #MarineLife #ApexPredator
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Juvenile gray whale found dead in Willapa River, hunger suspected
A juvenile gray whale that amazed Washington state residents after it swam 20 miles up a small river…
#NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #AKStateWire #Alaska #Animals #Arctic #AU #Australia #CentralAmerica #Climate #Climateandenvironment #Generalnews #JohnCalambokidis #LatinAmerica #Mexico #NationalOceanicandAtmosphericAdministration #Science #U.S.news #WAStateWire #washington #Whales
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Juvenile gray whale found dead in Willapa River, hunger suspected
A juvenile gray whale that amazed Washington state residents after it swam 20 miles up a…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #AKStateWire #Alaska #Animals #Arctic #CentralAmerica #Climate #Climateandenvironment #Generalnews #JohnCalambokidis #LatinAmerica #Mexico #NationalOceanicAndAtmosphericAdministration #Science #U.S.news #WAStateWire #Washington #Whales
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There Are Giant #Mammals Alive Today That Were Adults During the American #CivilWar
The #bowheadwhale, a giant, #Arctic-dwelling species bigger than a bus, evidence suggesting they live over 200yr. There are currently bowhead whales swimming around #Alaska that were alive when #MobyDick was written in 1851.
Other large #whales also enjoy relatively long lives; #bluewhales, can reach up to 90 years of age. Nevertheless, none can rival the extreme longevity of the #bowhead.
https://www.iflscience.com/the-longest-living-mammals-are-giants-that-live-up-to-200-years-in-the-icy-arctic-80853 -
Blue whales are going quiet and scientists say it’s a warning sign.
Ocean heat waves and noise pollution are silencing the ocean’s largest singers. Does saving the ocean start with hearing it?
Be the voice for the voiceless, share this post.
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Blue whales are going quiet and scientists say it’s a warning sign.
Ocean heat waves and noise pollution are silencing the ocean’s largest singers. Does saving the ocean start with hearing it?
Be the voice for the voiceless, share this post.
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We were warned! From September 2024. And now the #whales are falling silent!!! And #krill are dependent on whales as much as whales are dependent on krill!
#KrillHarvesting threatens #whale recovery
Soaring human demand for krill in the Southern Ocean poses a challenge to the recovery of whale species once hunted nearly to extinction. Stanford researchers identify the growing food conflict and offer solutions.
September 10th, 2024
"Human harvesting of krill in the Southern Ocean could threaten the recovery of whale species that were nearly wiped out by industrial whaling in the 20th century, according to a Sept. 10 study in Nature Communications.
"The tiny, shrimp-like crustaceans known as krill are the essential food source for baleen whales such as blues and #humpbacks. To feed, these giant marine mammals take in great gulps of ocean water, filtering krill through bristly mouth structures. Booming demand for krill as #FishMeal and #omega3 fatty acid nutritional #supplements, however, could leave whales without enough victuals to sustain even their diminished numbers.
" 'Our calculations suggest an alarming possibility that we might harvest krill to the point where we do real damage to recovering whale populations,' said lead study author Matthew Savoca, a research scientist in the lab of Jeremy Goldbogen, associate professor of oceans in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.
"The results highlight a need for scientists, regulators, and industry to carefully assess the impacts of krill harvesting in the Southern Ocean at current levels before expanding. 'With this study, we want to draw attention to how there likely isn’t enough krill to support fully recovered whale populations, and now on top of that, we’re harvesting krill and plan to harvest more krill in the near future,' said Goldbogen, the study’s senior author
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Counting on krill"The new research grew out of a prior Stanford study documenting how baleen whales gobble up significantly more krill than scientists had previously estimated. A paradoxical finding of that study was that, as whale populations plummeted by roughly 90% in the Southern Ocean during whaling’s grim heyday, so, too, did krill populations.
"The researchers worked out that #BaleenWhales effectively fertilize the ocean through their prodigious droppings, providing nutrients for the #phytoplankton that krill eat. The upshot: The krill population must have been much larger, perhaps five times greater, than it is currently to have sustained the pre-whaling whale populations in the early 20th century.
" 'Krill is the foundation of the entire Southern Ocean ecosystem. They’re really the only thing that large whales eat down there,' Savoca said.
"In the nearly 40 years since a global whaling moratorium went into place in 1986, some Southern Ocean species – particularly humpbacks – have made an impressive comeback. Yet this recovery has taken place against increasing competition with humans for the whales’ critical food source; over the past 30 years, the krill catch has quadrupled to around 400,000 tons annually and is set to expand further.
"Savoca and colleagues calculated how much krill is left in the Southern Ocean for baleen whales, seabirds, and other predators to eat after industrial krill harvesting at current rates, compared to the estimated amount of krill available before industrial whaling began. 'The basic math makes it pretty clear that the current krill biomass cannot support both an expanding krill fishery and the recovery of whale populations to pre-whaling size,' said Savoca."
Read more:
#SaveTheWhales #KrillSupplements #Overfishing #FoodChain #FoodIsLife #WaterIsLife #Whales #Extinction #BlueWhales
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More victims of #ClimateChange and #WarmingOceans. Also, #KrillHarvesting has got to STOP!
Scientists Alarmed as #Whales Suddenly Going Silent
"When you really break it down, it’s like trying to sing while you're starving."
Aug 1, 10:27 AM EDT by Victor Tangermann
"Researchers are alarmed after noticing a significant drop in the number of vocalizations from #BlueWhales.
"As National Geographic reports, scientists used specialized underwater hydrophones, meaning the aquatic version of microphones, to record and trace the sounds of marine life, allowing them to analyze the impact human activity is having on various species.
"However, as detailed in a study published in the journal PLOS One, devastating heat waves have triggered worrying changes over the past decade, allowing #ToxicAlgae to bloom and undermine food sources for whales.
" 'It caused the most widespread poisoning of marine mammals ever documented,' coauthor and Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute biological oceanographer John Ryan told NatGeo. 'These were hard times for whales.'
"As a result, blue whale vocalizations dropped by almost 40 percent, according to the study, with populations of #krill and #anchovy collapsing.
" 'When you really break it down, it’s like trying to sing while you're starving,' Ryan explained. 'They were spending all their time just trying to find food.' "
Read more:
https://futurism.com/scientists-alarmed-whales-silent#OceansAreLife #Overfishing #FoodIsLife #Extinction #MarineLife #MarineHeatWaves #HeatBlob #GlobalWarming
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Commentary: #WaterProtectors on trial again as #Greenpeace case begins in #NorthDakota
by #WinonaLaDuke
February 24, 2025Excerpt: "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 -
Commentary: #WaterProtectors on trial again as #Greenpeace case begins in #NorthDakota
by #WinonaLaDuke
February 24, 2025Excerpt: "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 -
Commentary: #WaterProtectors on trial again as #Greenpeace case begins in #NorthDakota
by #WinonaLaDuke
February 24, 2025Excerpt: "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 -
Commentary: #WaterProtectors on trial again as #Greenpeace case begins in #NorthDakota
by #WinonaLaDuke
February 24, 2025Excerpt: "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 -
Commentary: #WaterProtectors on trial again as #Greenpeace case begins in #NorthDakota
by #WinonaLaDuke
February 24, 2025Excerpt: "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 -
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A few more of my vignettes (rendered in 2021) for the book, called SEA MAMMALS, by Annalisa Berta. Here are Behemotops and Odobenocetops – two amazing weirdos.
#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #SeaMammals #Whales #WildlifeArt #Odobenocetops #Behemotops
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A few more of my vignettes (rendered in 2021) for the book, called SEA MAMMALS, by Annalisa Berta. Here are Berardius, Echovenator, and Semirostrum.
#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #SeaMammals #Whales #WildlifeArt
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A few more of my vignettes (rendered in 2021) for the book, called SEA MAMMALS, by Annalisa Berta. Here are Aegyptocetus and the toothed baleen whale (!) Aetiocetus.
#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #SeaMammals #Whales #WildlifeArt
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2021 I created a bunch of vignettes for a new book, called SEA MAMMALS, by Annalisa Berta. Here are Livyatan and the tuskless walrus, Titanotaria (not to scale).
#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #SeaMammals #Whales #Livyatan #Walrus
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2021 I created a bunch of vignettes for a new book, called SEA MAMMALS, by Annalisa Berta. They were quick to produce and a fun change from my big Mesozoic landscapes, which take weeks to complete. The animals here are not to scale.
#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #SeaMammals #Whales #Dolphins #SeaCows
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The Dirty Secrets: #Whales, the #GrandCanyon and #WarCriminals
by #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews
November 22, 2024"People who travel the world will tell you two things that they really love: Whales and the Grand Canyon.
"The majestic Orca whales are now at risk from the massive oil tankers departing the shores of British Columbia with thick crude oil from Alberta tar sands in Canada, bound for distant refineries and ports.
"Meanwhile, in the heart of the Southwest, the Grand Canyon, loved by the people of the world, now has a uranium mine spewing radioactive dust into the air, and endangering Havasupai's aquifer and future generations.
"Neither the Appeals Court in Canada, nor the U.S. EPA and Interior have done anything to stop these assaults on the most beloved natural wonders in the world, whales and the Grand Canyon.
"Rueben George, səlilwətaɬ, Tsleil-Waututh Nation, remembers the long fight to halt the Trans Mountain Pipeline, now carrying crude oil from Alberta tar sands to the Salish Sea, which flows off the shores of British Columbia and Washington State to the Pacific."George said they thought they were winning their case in Canada's Appeal Court.
"'They said you're right it's going to kill all the Orca whales, you're right -- but we're going to build it anyway,' George said at the Salish Sea Assembly in Seattle in November.
"The uranium mine in the Grand Canyon is now spraying radioactive dust on Havasupai's medicine plants, and into the air for the world's travelers to breathe. The uranium mine, operated by Energy Fuels of Canada, threatens the aquifer of Havasupai and future generations.
"The mine's radioactive truck transport is a deadly risk for Supai, Paiute, Dine', Hopi and Ute on the haul route. The radioactive ore is transported by truck to the Energy Fuels mill in the White Mesa Ute community in southeastern Utah.
"Interior's Deb Haaland, who is Laguna Pueblo and Norwegian, has not only failed to halt the deadly risks and destruction, but has proclaimed that the atomic bomb industry, Los Alamos National Laboratory, will lead the green 'energy transition.'
"Los Alamos Labs produces nuclear weapons and is already poisoning the Pueblo homelands in northern New Mexico with radiation. A federal judge recently halted the push to produce and store more plutonium at the site, citing a risk to the environment."
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-dirty-secrets-whales-grand-canyon.html#AlbertaTarSands #TarSands #LosAlamos #EnvironmentalRacism #Plutonium #Greenwashing #NuclearWeapons #UraniumMining #UraniumMills #DebHaaland #NuclearIndustry #AtomicBombs #Downwinders #Environment #WaterIsLife #Supai #Paiute #Dine' #Hopi #Ute #HaulNo #EnergyFuels #WhiteMesaUte #WhiteMesa #Havasupai #SalishSeaAssembly #Salish #OceansAreLife #RadioactiveDust #RadioactiveContamination #TsleilWaututh #TsleilWaututhNation #CanadasAppealsCourt #TransmountainPipeline #RuebenGeorge #BritishColumbia #WashingtonState #NoUraniumMining #NoTarSands #Oiligarchy #ExtractiveIndustries #CorporateColonialism #ReaderSupportedNews #ProtectHaKamwe #NavajoTransitionalEnergyCompany #DefendTheSacred #AirIsLife
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Listen to whale calls recorded on land-based seismometers!: https://seismicsoundscapes.myportfolio.com/lower-st-lawrence-seaway
The study was just published in Seismica @weareseismica: http://doi.org/10.26443/seismica.v3i2.1153
by lead author Eva Goblot, an #EarthSystemScience graduate from #McGillUniversity#Montreal #Quebec #ISMER #UCAR #GSC #Whales #BlueWhales #FinWhales #Seismology
