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Melting ice sheets to blame for injured right whales

For several years, endangered North Atlantic right whales were injured in waters where they weren’t expected. Scientists are now linking that to the planet’s rapidly melting ice sheets.

Lauren Sommer from NPR’s climate desk reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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