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Climate in Numbers: Melting ice threatens whale routes

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Published: September 26th, 2024,
Last updated: January 30th, 2025

On a collision course with more and more ships in the Arctic: a bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus).

The effects of global warming are having a particularly severe impact on the planet’s largest mammals: Every spring and fall, thousands of bowhead, beluga and narwhal whales migrate north and south like other whale species and increasingly have problems with the dwindling ice cover. This is now shown in a new report by the environmental foundation WWF, which maps whale migration routes around the North Pole for the first time.

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