Can These Rare Whales Be Saved


This week's investigative reporting, analysis and environmental news.
The Revelator

No. 44, Sept. 6, 2018

Hello Revelator readers,

Last month a grieving orca named Tahlequah made worldwide headlines as she carried her dead calf for 17 days and 1,000 miles, refusing to let it sink into the sea until she was utterly exhausted. Tahlequah is one of the last Southern Resident killer whales, a population suffering from pollution, lack of food and other threats. For more on this issue, check out Rachel Clark's powerful essay and find out what it would take to save these rare whales.

Saving wildlife — even oceangoing species like orcas — often means protecting the land, too. That's the objective of the activist organization Great Old Broads for Wilderness. This week we interviewed Executive Director Shelley Silbert to learn about the threats public lands face from the current administration and how to defend our embattled wild spaces.

How will climate change affect you and your neighborhood? For answers, check out our new interactive map, which reveals how annual temperatures will change around the globe in the year 2050. This is the first in a new series, so stay tuned for more in the weeks ahead.

Finally this week, we're proud to welcome The Revelator's new deputy editor, Tara Lohan, who's already working on several great articles. To find out more about her, check out this interview about why she thinks this is a critical time for environmental journalism.

In case you missed it:

What does it take to save California condors? Sometimes the answer includes a chisel and a hand puppet.

Send us your tips:

What stories should we cover? We welcome your ideas and inside scoops. Drop us a line anytime.

Coming up:

Come back to the site tomorrow for our look at September's best new environmental books. And look for all our newest links in next week's newsletter, or follow us on Twitter and Facebook for the latest headlines as they go live. And while you're on social media, we hope you'll share our stories with your friends.

Feel free to forward this newsletter, too — every new reader makes a difference.

That's it for this week. As always, thanks for reading.

John Platt

John R. Platt
Editor, The Revelator

  This message was sent to eamessages@biologicaldiversity.org.
Join the Center for Biological Diversity.


Center for Biological Diversity
P.O. Box 710
Tucson, AZ 85702
United States