Climate-driven global redistribution of an ocean giant predicts increased threat from shipping
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 07 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02129-5 The authors use long-term satellite tracking to project climate-induced shifts in whale shark distributions and understand their potential future risk of ship-strike. Under high-emission scenarios, the movement of sharks to current range-edge habitat is linked to 15,000-fold increased co-occurrence with ships.