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Beluga whales’ calls may get drowned out by shipping noise in Alaska’s Cook Inlet

By UW News Staff on Dec 12, 2023   At Sea, Featured, Science/Education  

Beluga whales’ calls may get drowned out by shipping noise in Alaska’s Cook Inlet

Beluga whales are highly social and vocal marine mammals. They use acoustics to navigate, find prey, avoid predators and maintain group cohesion. For Alaska’s critically endangered Cook Inlet beluga population, these crucial communications may compete with a cacophony of noise from human activities. New research from the University of Washington, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Alaska Fisheries […]

Changes in Cholesterol Production Lead to Tragic Octopus Death Spiral

By UW News Staff on May 15, 2022   At Sea, Featured, Science/Education  

Changes in Cholesterol Production Lead to Tragic Octopus Death Spiral

For all their uncanny intelligence and seemingly supernatural abilities to change color and regenerate limbs, octopuses often suffer a tragic death. After a mother octopus lays a clutch of eggs, she quits eating and wastes away; by the time the eggs hatch, she is dead. Some females in captivity even seem to speed up this […]

Warming temperatures tripled Arctic lightning strikes over the past decade

By UW News Staff on Apr 13, 2021   Featured, Science/Education  

Warming temperatures tripled Arctic lightning strikes over the past decade

Lightning strikes in the Arctic tripled from 2010 to 2020, a finding University of Washington researchers attribute to rising temperatures due to human-caused climate change. The results, researchers say, suggest Arctic residents in northern Russia, Canada, Europe and Alaska need to prepare for the danger of more frequent lightning strikes. The study, published March 22 in […]

Bait and Switch: Mislabeled Salmon, Shrimp Have Biggest Environmental Toll

By UW News Staff on Dec 30, 2020   Featured, General News  

Bait and Switch: Mislabeled Salmon, Shrimp Have Biggest Environmental Toll

Seafood is the world’s most highly traded food commodity, by value, and the product is hard to track from source to market. Reports of seafood mislabeling have increased over the past decade, but few studies have considered the overall environmental effects of this deceptive practice. A study by Arizona State University, the University of Washington […]

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