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  "path": "/news/27022026/warming-ocean-southern-right-whales-fewer-calves/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-27T10:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://insideclimatenews.org",
  "tags": [
    "Science",
    "Antarctica",
    "Climate Change",
    "marine heatwave",
    "marine life",
    "National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration",
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    "Ocean",
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  "textContent": "Southern right whales—once driven to near-extinction by industrial hunting in the 19th and 20th centuries—have long been regarded as a conservation success. After the International Whaling Commission banned commercial whaling in the 1980s, populations began a slow but steady rebound. New research, however, suggests climate change may be undermining that recovery. “In my lifetime the […]",
  "title": "Southern Right Whales Are Having Fewer Calves; Scientists Say a Warming Ocean Is to Blame"
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