Baleen whales are massing off East Greenland to eat capelin that moved north, and narwhals now share a coast they once had alone.
For most of the past few centuries, heavy pack ice pressed against the east coast of Greenland and kept the big boreal whales out. In summer that barrier is mostly gone.
Fin, humpback and minke whales now feed side by side along that coast as far north as 70 degrees, well above the Arctic Circle.
Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen and his colleagues put the…
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