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The container ship MSC Tomoko Panama in the Santa Barbara Channel in 2009. Ships like these pose deadly threats of pollution and collision to blue whales in the area.

How do you save the whales? Slow down the ships

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California’s blue whale population is making a comeback, but it still has to contend with the threat of big container ships that cross whales’ feeding grounds on the way to the ports of Los Angeles. But just by slowing down, ships can dramatically reduce whale strikes — and pollution as well.

Coral trout

Could this trout really be as smart as a chimp?

Global Scan
Blue whales are the largest creatures that have ever lived. They were hunted to near extinction in the 20th century and have only recovered since to perhaps 10% of their pre-whaling numbers, but new research has found that the Northeastern Pacific populat

Here’s the green success story of the California blue whale

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A stinky, dead whale has become a tourist attraction in a Canadian town

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