Southern Right Whales Are Having Fewer Calves; Scientists Say a Warming Ocean Is to Blame
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After decades of recovery from commercial whaling, climate change is now threatening the whales’ future. By Teresa Tomassoni Southern right whales—once driven to near-extinction by industrial hunting in the 19th and 20th centuries—have long been regarded as a conservation success. After the International Whaling Commission banned commercial whaling in the 1980s, populations began a slow […]