Rapidly warming oceans have left many Arctic marine mammals swimming in troubled waters. But perhaps none more so than that strange and mysterious “unicorn of the sea,” the narwhal.

Rapidly warming oceans have left many Arctic marine mammals swimming in troubled waters. But perhaps none more so than that strange and mysterious “unicorn of the sea,” the narwhal.

A research study published this spring estimates, habitat suitable to narwhals could shrink by a staggering twenty-five percent by century’s end. Thanks to manmade climate change, their watery home is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth. And, in a scant few decades, sea-ice, so vital to their survival, could be gone altogether during Arctic […]

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