Famine has decimated gray whales off the Pacific coast. Can the Giants ever recover?
The decomposing carcass of a gray whale catches the attention of visitors at Muir Beach in San Francisco in April 2021. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times) When large numbers of gray whales began washing up along North America’s Pacific coast nearly six years ago, marine scientists could only speculate about the reason: was it a disease? … Read more