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Lang voordat Greenpeace nodig was, pronkten onze voorouders met kaken van walvissen aan de stadsmuren. In de zestiende eeuw was dat een teken van macht, zoals je tegenwoordig toch minstens een paar wolkenkrabbers moet hebben. Vrijwel overal is de walviskaak in de loop der eeuwen verdwenen, maar in Veere hebben ze onlangs geld (3340 euro) … Meer lezen
As the ice melts at pace in the Arctic, the mining and shipping industry has carved itself an opportunity out of the crisis. Meanwhile, the marine ecosystem is left to coping with the heat, noise, pollution and the cascade of other changes that come with the upheaval of the environment. >> read more …
Smeltend poolijs bedreigt de ijswalvis, terwijl juist zijn voedingspatroon zorgt voor extra CO2-opname in de zeebodem. Bioloog Herman Sips zet daarom in op een sociale-mediagenieke IJswalvisexpeditie. >> lees verder …
A new study, led by scientists at the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life, improves our ability to predict how whales travel through their vast and varied ocean habitat. >> read more …
Federal scientists say killer whales are increasingly preying on bowhead whales in U.S. Arctic waters, raising questions about the future health of the endangered bowheads that provide a critical subsistence food for Alaska Natives. >> read more …
Somewhere in the ocean there could be a whale that has been alive since 25 years before the USA existed and seven years before Admiral Nelson was born. >> read more …
As the Arctic struggles with climate extremes, the bowhead migration is two months late. If whales don’t arrive soon, “we’re going to go hungry,” one hunter said. >> read more …
Of the estimated 12 species of baleen whale, only the song of the humpback and bowhead whale covers both low and high frequency areas. A researcher has looked into this mystery. >> read more …
The subpopulation of the bowhead whale Balaena mysticetus in the East Greenland-Svalbard-Barents Sea is endangered and until recently was believed to number in the tens. Recent studies have suggested that this subpopulation appears to be increasing. Here, we report on unusual aggregations of bowhead whales within the Fram Strait. >> read more …
Wetenschappers van Wageningen Marine Research stuitten dit voorjaar op ruim honderd foeragerende Groenlandse walvissen (Balaena mysticetus) in de Groenlandzee ten zuidwesten van Spitsbergen. Deze bedreigde walvissoort was voorheen in dat gebied bijna uitgestorven en staat daarom als ‘Critically Endangered’ op de Rode lijst van de IUCN. >> lees verder …