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Coming up on forum, in 2018, science journalist Linda Mabes drew international attention for her day-by-day coverage of the female Orca, known as Talaqua, who carried her dead newborn calf more than a thousand miles through the sailish sea before finally letting her go.

That reporting formed the basis for MAPE's newest book, Orca, Shared Waters, Shared Home.

We'll talk with MAPES about the sophisticated social networks that Orcas form and the environmental threats they face,

including this year's record heat and drought that are imperiling the salmon they rely on.

Join us. This is Forum. I'm Nina Kim.

The ripple effect of California's drought reaches as far as the top of the marine food chain,

orcas. By further endangering the prey they rely on to survive.

Science journalist Linda Mabes has been exploring the unique southern

resident orcas who roam as far south as California's central coast in search of dwindling salmon

and the environmental threats they're enduring. MAPS drew international attention to these mammals in

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