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Luke McMillan
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Did Iceland just kill its last fin whale?

Credit: Hard to Port

A few months ago I put a date in my calendar where I wrote 'Iceland Ends Whaling'. It was my way of trying to manifest something (I've read a lot about the power of manifesting and thought I'd give it a crack).

I...

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The One With The Overshoot

This episode started with a pretty straight forward question. If we do go past 1.5°C, which, if we are really honest with ourselves, now looks increasingly likely, and we somehow manage to bring temperatures back down again later, what actu...

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The Deep Brief #53 | 13 September 2026

Wednesday 9 September was a long day. Just another day of ocean conservationing, really.

My first stop was Westminster, where Valentina Crast and the Sea Shepherd Global team were presenting their latest report on the grindadráp, the pilot...

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The Deep Brief #52 | 6 September 2026

Somewhere south of the Kerguelen Islands, about as far from anywhere as you can get, elephant seals have been quietly doing oceanography for us.

I love stories like this, because an animal can go looking for dinner and, without knowing any...

19 days ago
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Between Tides: I hope we keep asking each other things

I’d still rather ask someone I trust than reach for Google

Between Tides is my personal column exclusively for paid subscribers. Think of it as an opinion column rather than one of my more rigorous science or policy pieces, where I write d...

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