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Humpback whales may one day avoid Hawaiian waters due to climate change and rising greenhouse gasses, according the findings of anew paperpublished in Frontiers in Marine Science by a team of researchers including three University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa graduate students.

The students include: Hannah von Hammerstein and Renee Setter from theDepartment of Geography and Environmentin theCollege of Social Sciences, and Martin van Aswegen from theMarine Mammal Research Programin theInstitute for Marine Biology.

Humpback whales are known to migrate toward tropical coastal waters, such as Hawai‘i’s, where they give birth to their calves. These areas lay in regions with sea surface temperatures ranging between 21 and 28 degrees Celsius (approximately 70–82 degrees…