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New Research Shows Climate Change Impacts on Whale Habitat Use in the Warming Gulf of Maine

Monday, June 13, 2022

There is coverage of a study led by the New England Aquarium that includes researchers from UMass Amherst finding climate change is having an impact on how large whale species, including the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, use habitats in the warming Gulf of Maine. It shows that right whales’ use of Cape Cod Bay has shifted significantly over the last 20 years.