Humpback Whales May Steer Clear of Hawai’i Due to Climate Change

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Humpback Whales May Steer Clear of Hawai’i Due to Climate Change

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UH News, first published on July 3, 2022

Humpback whales may one day avoid Hawaiian waters due to climate change and rising greenhouse gasses, according the findings of a new paper published in Frontiers in Marine Science by a team of researchers including three University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa graduate students—Hannah von Hammerstein and Renee Setter from the Department of Geography and Environment in the College of Social Sciences, and Martin van Aswegen from the Marine Mammal Research Program in the Institute for Marine Biology.

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