The Whale

Hong Chau, Sadie Sink, and Ty Simpkins co-star alongside Fraser, who transforms into a 600-pound recluse in the latest preview for Darren Aronofsky's new ...

[A24](https://ew.com/entity/a24/), with nationwide expansion planned for Dec. And it might just be because it [was] an athletic actor inside a silhouette of a costume that was filled with cotton padding, and there's a disconnect. [separate interview](https://ew.com/movies/brendan-fraser-the-whale-interview/), Fraser added: "What we've seen with body types in films prior to this one — I looked at a lot of them. I think that those costumes, whether they were ill-intentioned or otherwise, they put quotation marks around a person who lives with obesity. "If you meet that invitation with a furrowed brow, then we're kind of at an impasse. "I need to know that I have done one thing right with my life."

Brendan Fraser scream-cries in the new, longer trailer for Darren Aronofsky's A24 drama The Whale, in which the actor plays a 600-pound man.

Aronofsky, whose past work includes The Wrestler and Requiem for a Dream, produces alongside Jeremy Dawson and Ari Handel. It also has a lot more dialogue, giving us a better sense of who Sadie Sink and Hong Chau’s characters are and what their relationship with Charlie is like. At one minute and 50 seconds, the new trailer is nearly twice as long as the original one-minute and four-second trailer that A24 released a month ago.

A24 and Darren Aronofsky reveal a broader look at the upcoming melodrama about a gay 600-pound online English teacher.

We looked at — I won’t name names — but we looked at all the films where actors were in similar attire and outfits and it was either just in service of a cheap joke, or a way to cast scorn or derision on a character for reasons that appeal to the bias that we hold against people who live with obesity. Brendan Fraser is the right actor to play this role, and the film is an exercise in empathy.” All it was important to me was that yes, it was cumbersome, and understandably and rightfully so. “One of my first calls after casting Brendan was to my makeup artist, Adrien Morot. “We wanted to create a fully worked-out character who has bad parts about him and good parts about him; Charlie is very selfish, but he’s also full of love and is seeking forgiveness. Directed by [Darren Aronofsky](https://www.indiewire.com/t/darren-aronofsky/) from the 2012 play of the same name by Samuel D.

Shark Watch SA released an alert this morning warning locals close to Dany Beach at Corny Point, Yorke Peni...

The group said the decaying whale would "likely attract sharks to the area for the time being while the whale remains in the area". [shark feeding frenzy](http://9news.com.au/sharks)after a [whale](http://9news.com.au/whale)carcass washed ashore at a popular [South Australian](http://9news.com.au/south-australia)swimming spot. Shark Watch SA released an alert this morning warning locals close to Dany Beach at Corny Point on the Yorke Peninsula to avoid the area after the carcass drifted in.

'I need to know I did one thing right with my life.' We finally have the full trailer for the highly anticipated Darren Aronofsky film The Whale, ...

"A performance for the ages..." We finally have the full trailer for the highly anticipated Darren Aronofsky film The Whale, starring Brendon Fraser – which is already receiving massive Oscar buzz. Also starring Sadie Sink, The Whale is in Australian cinemas on February 2, 2023.

National Parks and Wildlife officers are investigating the death of a sperm whale, warning the carcass could attract sharks to the area.

- Seven sperm whales became stranded and died on the Yorke Peninsula in 2014 - A dead whale has come to rest on a reef off the Yorke Peninsula National Parks and Wildlife officers are investigating the death of a sperm whale off the coast of South Australia's Yorke Peninsula.

Whales store immense amounts of CO2 and financial institutions are considering “biocredits” to fund their preservation. Biologists aren't convinced.

“As the authors of several foundational papers cited in these reports, we feel the scientific support for this valuation is lacking.” In a new paper, however, the scientists behind that carbon research deliver a message: Don’t monetize the whales. [study](https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347(22)00279-8) published Thursday in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

Want to save the planet? Saving whales could help, scientists say. Image without a caption. By Rachel ...

“The full carbon dioxide reduction role of great whales (and other organisms) will only be realized through robust conservation and management interventions that directly promote population increases.” Offshore wind turbines — [part of President Biden’s clean energy agenda](https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/04/21/right-whales-biden/?itid=lk_inline_manual_22) — are also poised to encroach on their habitat as the administration tries to balance tackling global warming with protecting wildlife. The authors were cautious on the math behind including whale carbon in any wider climate-change mitigation strategies just yet, however, as there are still many scientific unknowns. “When they finish digesting their food, their excrement is rich in important nutrients that help these krill and plankton flourish, aiding in increased photosynthesis and carbon storage from the atmosphere.” When they die, they sink to the bottom of the ocean, taking carbon out of the atmosphere for centuries. “Whales consume up to 4 percent of their massive body weight in krill and photosynthetic plankton every day.

Much like the ocean, soil and forests, whales can help save humanity from the accelerating climate crisis by sequestering and storing planet-heating carbon ...

“Fundamentally, whales will not save our oceans or planet on their own, but they likely play a role in the larger system.” It put the average value of a great whale at $2 million. “You can think of protecting whales as a low risk and low regret strategy, because there’s really no downside,” Pearson told CNN. And because whales live longer than most animals, some for more than 100 years, the paper said they could be “one of the largest stable living carbon pools” in the ocean. When they die, phytoplankton also sink at the bottom of the seafloor, taking tiny bits of carbon in their carcasses. The paper puts together all available research about how whales work as critical carbon sinks.

Great whales, which include the filter feeding baleen whales and toothed sperm whales, play a significant role in the ocean's biological carbon pump, cycling ...

Whales are already being impacted by the [consequences of climate change](https://www.sciencealert.com/that-warm-blob-in-the-pacific-could-be-behind-a-drop-in-the-number-of-whales-being-born) too, with their prey on the move due to changing water conditions. [poop tsunamis](https://www.sciencealert.com/these-animals-prove-butts-are-way-weirder-and-more-complicated-than-you-think) then feed CO2-sequestering plankton that float near the ocean's surface with otherwise out-of-reach nutrients like iron and nitrogen. [conclude](https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347(22)00279-8). [Trends in Ecology and Evolution](https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347(22)00279-8). What's more, most estimates of their impacts to date have not included all the species of great whales. Some estimates suggest that before their populations were decimated, sperm whales in the Southern Ocean helped remove close to 2 million tonnes of CO2 a year; now though, this number it's closer to Here, their biomass becomes food for a whole host of other animals, sequestering that carbon deep under water. [write](https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347(22)00279-8). [protecting remaining](https://www.sciencealert.com/there-is-one-safe-geoengineering-option-that-could-help-reduce-the-carbon-in-our-atmosphere) and [restoring lost and degraded](https://www.sciencealert.com/we-must-rewild-a-billion-hectares-to-combat-climate-change-warns-un-report) ecosystems. Depending on the animal's numbers, this might make them a valuable carbon sink, researchers propose. [fishery entanglements](https://www.sciencealert.com/the-fishing-line-lost-at-sea-in-a-year-could-wrap-around-earth-18-times), [ship strikes](https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-track-shipping-traffic-in-chilean-patagonia-to-reveal-danger-zones-for-blue-whales), noise pollution, [plastic pollution](https://www.sciencealert.com/dead-whales-keep-washing-up-on-our-shores-devastatingly-full-of-plastic) and continued whaling. [Balaenoptera musculus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_whale)) and fin ( [Balaenoptera physalus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fin_whale)) whales are the two largest animals to ever exist on Earth," Pearson and team [explain in their review](https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347(22)00279-8).

Nature-based solutions to fight climate change take a holistic approach that promotes biodiversity and ecosystem preservation.

"The full carbon dioxide reduction role of great whales (and other organisms) will only be realized through robust conservation and management interventions that directly promote population increases." When they finish digesting their food, their excrement is rich in important nutrients that help these krill and plankton flourish, aiding in increased photosynthesis and carbon storage from the atmosphere. "Considering that baleen whales have some of the longest migrations on the planet, they potentially influence nutrient dynamics and carbon cycling over ocean-basin scales."

There are many reasons why whale conservation is important. The fact that they help capture carbon is just an added benefit, scientists said.

These byproducts are then nibbled on by other animals and plants, putting that carbon back into the food chain. And whales do this naturally," Pearson said. This is called the whale pump effect. Any animal, big or small, is part of a carbon cycle. Carbon is present in every lifeform on Earth. [collisions with ships](https://www.businessinsider.com/cargo-ships-kill-blue-whales-solution-change-route-marine-biologist-2022-2), keeping the [oceans quiet](https://www.businessinsider.com/cargo-ships-in-japan-are-changing-whales-songs-2018-10), and avoiding whales getting tangled in [fishing gear](https://www.businessinsider.com/rescuers-right-whale-north-atlantic-noaa-2017-1), Pearson said. Animals get carbon by eating plants and animal products, and plants get it from the atmosphere. Though it may not be a solution to the climate crisis on its own, their ability to store carbon is another reason to encourage their numbers to rise in the oceans, the scientists said. Because they are so large — with the largest whales bigger even than the dinosaurs — the amount of carbon they capture throughout their lifetime is substantial. - Whales are the biggest animals on Earth and their huge bodies play a role in the carbon cycle. - They act as carbon vaults by sinking to the bottom of the ocean when they die, scientists said. Whales naturally help divert carbon away from the atmosphere in life and death, scientists said in a review published Thursday.

Researchers work to increase awareness of the significance of carbon removal by the planets largest animals- whales.

[Whales](https://interestingengineering.com/science/blue-whales-10-million-microplastics) can exceed the size of even giant airplanes, weigh up to 150 tonnes, and live for almost a century. This puts them closer to where plastic is in the water, and because they consume so much, they are ingesting up to 10 million microplastic pieces per day. Therefore, interventions would at least need to include protecting whales and their prey from such human-induced pollution. For a blue whale, this is equivalent to roughly 8,000 pounds. In doing so, they explored how whales potentially help to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide. [study ](https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347(22)00279-8)published today (Dec.

Whales could play an invaluable role in the global effort to tackle climate change — by using their massive girth to store carbon that would otherwise be ...

The blue whale, meanwhile, can live up to 90 years. “Whale recovery has the potential for long-term self-sustained enhancement of the ocean carbon sink,” the authors wrote, referring to an entity that absorbs more carbon than it releases. And like all living things, their biomass is largely made up of carbon. One type of Great whale, the baleen whale, has one of the longest migration routes — meaning it can “potentially influence nutrient dynamics and carbon cycling over ocean-basin scales,” according to the study. “Their size and longevity allow whales to exert strong effects on the carbon cycle,” the authors wrote. In fact, whales “make up one of the largest living carbon pools in the pelagic ocean,” the