The company is best known for its Orca facility, the world’s first large-scale direct air capture and storage plant outside of Reykjavík, Iceland. This facility commenced operations in 2021 and ...

A pod of endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales were spotted off the coast of Monterey Bay, California. The whales rely on Chinook salmon as their primary food source, but salmon populations ...

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Whales are not just big, they’re a big deal for healthy oceans. When they poop, whales move tons of nutrients from deep water ...

like killer whales, or breeding humpback males, to pick up on that." Which means that nutrients spread out over the vast ocean get concentrated in much smaller coastal and coral ecosystems, "like ...

They wrote a letter to her in which they cited Dr David Perpiñán, a diplomate at the European College of Zoological Medicine, who said: "Wikie and Keijo's origin is Iceland. These two orcas do not ...

Keiko was the 15-year-old orca that played Willy in the movie. He became the first captive orca ever to return to the wild. In 1977, Keiko was born in the waters of Iceland. When ...

The federal government is rejecting the recommendations of two of its own ministers and refusing to issue an emergency order protecting southern resident killer whales from “imminent threats ...

As the population of Southern Resident orca whales continues to dwindle, those who care about them are trying to stay hopeful. The population of the endangered Southern Residents “is kind of in ...

When it comes to prey availability, Ottawa said it would adjust 2025 and 2026 fishing closures to increase seasonal protections in certain killer whale foraging areas. It would also introduce ...

Canada’s federal cabinet has declined a recommendation from two ministers to issue an emergency order that would protect endangered southern resident killer whales off the coast of British Columbia.