Harry Stevens: 🐋 There are only about 350 North Atlantic right whales left alive. For Climate Lab, we followed the migration of Bishop, aged 1, as he passed 100s of speeding vessels. This year alone, 3 dead right whales have been discovered w/ vessel strike injuries. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

🐋 There are only about 350 North Atlantic right whales left alive. For Climate Lab, we followed the migration of Bishop, aged 1, as he passed 100s of speeding vessels. This year alone, 3 dead right whales have been discovered w/ vessel strike injuries. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Analysis | Bishop vanished. His species can still be saved.www.washingtonpost.com This young whale survived a harrowing journey that has killed so many of his species. It wasn’t enough.

The Biden administration has proposed expanding the boundaries of the speed limit zone to protect right whales. Scientists say it could save the species from extinction, but the rule is still being reviewed by the White House. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

By 1935, these whales had been hunted nearly to extinction. Their population rebounded after an international ban on right whale hunting. Then, about a decade ago, the happy trend suddenly reversed. Their numbers are now falling by about 10 per year. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

The data and code to produce these figures can be found on Observable. The data are from NOAA Fisheries and Global Fishing Watch. - Map animation (might kill a mobile browser): observablehq.com/@climatelab/... - Population chart: observablehq.com/@climatelab/...

Animation of Bishop the right whale’s northward migrationobservablehq.com This notebook contains the data and code to produce a simpler version of the animated map seen in “Bishop vanished. His species can still be saved.”, published in The Washington Post on May 11, 2024. ...

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we are such bad "stewards"