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"site": "https://insideclimatenews.org",
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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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