In what may yet come to be considered the rescue of the year, Oceanografic de Valencia, Georgia Aquarium, and SeaWorld collaborated with Kharkiv’s NEMO Dolphinarium to carry out a heroic evacuation from the embattled industrial city in northeast Ukraine. Two beluga whales, Plombir and Miranda, were rescued from Kharkiv and transported to the Oceanografic aquarium in Valencia, Spain. The complex, high-risk operation was necessitated by the growing threat to the city from Russian artillery fire,...