For the world’s whales, climate change has picked up where harpoons left off

After commercial whaling stopped, populations recovered, but now global warming is threatening the animals

28 February 2022 - 19:06

New research in SA that southern right whales off its coast are getting thinner, having fewer calves and leaving these breeding grounds sooner provides further evidence for research conducted in the Americas that climate change shifts in the Southern Ocean could cause population decline...

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