Whoa 🤯 in Slow-MoApr 5
Antarctic #humpback whales 🐋 have bounced back to nearly pre-whaling levels. Amazing considering over 2 million whales were killed in the 20th century 🌊 Since the 1986 ban, they’ve recovered fast, with huge groups spotted again near the #SouthOrkneyIslands 😮✨

Antarctic whales’ remarkable c...
Antarctic whales’ remarkable comeback is threatened by krill fishing

Huge industrial trawlers are competing for krill – the main food source for whales – in the Southern Ocean, removing vital nutrients from the ecosystem

The Guardian
Show threadNonilexAug 9, 2024

Imagine a piece of ice ~1,500 sq miles in area & as deep as the Empire State Bldg spinning slowly but steadily enough to fully rotate it on its head over the course of ~24 days.

The #iceberg #A23a is spinning near the #SouthOrkneyIslands, ~375 miles NE of the #Antarctic Peninsula, “maintaining a chill 15° rotation per day,” the British Antarctic Survey, the UK’s polar research institute, said.

#Climate #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #ocean