Photo: Climate Change Harming Bering Sea Mammals, Birds, Study Shows



A gray whale pokes its head out between the ice in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska. Large pods of gray whales typically travel to the Bering Sea's northern waters each spring from Baja, California. Now, thanks to global warming, some whales are so comfortable in the north that they are foregoing their full return migration, going no further south than Kodiak, Alaska.

Photograph courtesy NOAA Corps Operations


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