"I love this notion: that in vast seas and the absence of cues, the space between whales became the point of focus."
In this excerpt from her new essay collection, Christina Rivera explores nature, the flowing relationships between things, and the missing language we need amid a time of change: https://longreads.com/2025/03/13/language-words-climate-crisis/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
From @ScienceAlert: Baleen whales undertake some of the longest yearly migrations, with humpbacks travelling up to 8,300 km (about 5,150 miles) from Antarctica to warmer wintering grounds. With them, the whales shuttle resources from nutrient-rich polar regions to the less resourced warmer regions of the oceans. Amazingly enough, a huge amount of this nutrient distribution comes from whale urine, which disperses nitrogen and other elements through the ocean when nature inevitably calls.
"Whale songs rise and fall with food supply, study finds."
When the world shifts, so must our words.
In an excerpt of her new book MY OCEANS: ESSAYS OF WATER, WHALES, AND WOMEN, Christina Rivera explores the sea of language, nature, intelligence, and the power of naming the ineffable.
(Publisher: Northwestern University Press)
How whale urine benefits the ocean ecosystem - https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/how-whale-urine-benefits-the-ocean-ecosystem/ "Great whales can transport 4,000 tons of nitrogen annually to tropical coastal areas." clever old #whales
Eye contact
"This moment of eye contact was beyond my wildest dreams. I’ve never encountered a whale like this one, and it was the most profoundly beautiful experience of my life."
Rachel Moore
Sharing the planet winner: Sweet Girl’s Essence by Sina Ritter
Next time a bigot tells you queerness is against nature, show them this and said, whale actually
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/mating-male-humpbacks-1.7131511
And then after they’ve composed themselves, tell them ‘you’re whalecome’
Bigots don’t deserve whales tho, even if they’re humpbacks humping
Humpback whales photographed by researchers on the ninth National Antarctic Science Expedition led by the Turkish Polar Research Institute, #Antarctica
Photograph: Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu/Getty Images
