More Arctic ship traffic could affect the region’s marine mammals
Narwhals and walruses would be the most at risk.
The expected growth in Arctic ship traffic is likely to affect marine mammals in the region, but those impacts will vary from species to species, as well as from one area to another. And gaps in research mean that uncertainty remains about how some of those impacts will play out.
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