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Avatar: The Way of Water's Tulkun share a surprising connection with real whales. Set fifteen years after the first Avatar, the long-awaited sequel finds Jake and Neytiri's Na'vi family fleeing their forest home to seek refuge with the reef-dwelling Metkayina clan. There, their troubled middle child Lo'ak (Britain Dalton) befriends a Tulkun, essentially a whale-like creature, named Payakan. The somewhat strange and unexpected subplot got viewers wondering if it's actually possible for a human to befriend a whale.

Now, a renowned ocean ecologist has the answer. During a recent interview with GQ, Dr. Carl Safina provided several anecdotes about people befriending whales, including an orca named Luna off the shores of British Columbia, as well as his personal experience befriending a whale during his PhD studies off the South Shore of Long Island. In both cases, Dr. Safina notes that the whales had been separated from their family, similar to...

More than 200 prominent individuals — including Hollywood actors Brian Cox, Alan Cumming, Steve Coogan and Eva Green — have united through an international open letter to call on world leaders at the COP27 climate conference to end factory farming and transform our global food system.

The letter – organized by Compassion in World Farming as part of its new End of the Line for Factory Farming global campaign – highlights the urgent need to transform our global food system and calls on world leaders to support and deliver a global agreement on food and farming at the United Nations General Assembly. It is being released on Solutions Day at the conference.

Some 208 people from around the world have signed the letter, including:

Hollywood actors Brian Cox, Alan Cumming, Steve Coogan and Eva Green

British TV personalities Chris Packham, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Dr. Amir Khan Gp, and actors Dame Joanna Lumley, Kate Ford and Peter Egan...

A version of this article originally appeared on ew.com.

Emma Watson loves to read.

The actress has that in common with her brainy Harry Potter character Hermione as well as bookish Belle, who she plays in the much-anticipated film Beauty and the Beast, out March 17. In addition to being a bookworm, Watson is also an outspoken feminist and as well as a Un Women Goodwill Ambassador and promoter of the organization’s HeForShe movement, which is dedicated to recruiting men into the movement for gender equality. As a response to her work with the Un, she launched the feminist...

Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina is probably one of the most optimistic environmental shows to come along in awhile. While Americans certainly need the tough love of films like An Inconvenient Truth and The Cove, it is refreshing to see humans acting as part of the solution rather than being the problem. In each episode, Carl Safina travels around the world and meets with communities that have re-evaluated their relationship to the ocean. They have made their fishing sustainable or revived their whale population, creating a relationship that benefits both the community and the wildlife.

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