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Climate change may have driven gray whale up Kuskowkim

3 Aug 2017

Napakiak, Alaska, United States

Climate change may be responsible for pushing Alaska’s Gray Whales up into estuaries and rivers like the Kuskokwim.

Alaska Public Media / Anna Rose MacArthur / KYUK - Bethel

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