Prof Marcello Vichi was interviewed by climate journalist, Syris Valentine, from the Eos, a science news magazine published by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), to find out more on Prof Vichi's recent study that used historic records of humpback whale catches in the 1930s as a proxy for sea ice extent.

Here is the link to the news article to find out more:

See the paper that they talk about it in the article here:

Historical catch records of humpback whales and the assessment of early 20th century sea ice edge in climate models

Marcello Vichi*, Elisa Seyboth, Thando Mazomba, Els Vermeulen, Ken Findlay, Jan-Olaf Meynecke, Jasper de Bie, Eduardo Secchi, Luciano Dalla Rosa and Alakendra Roychoudhury

Published 16 May 2025 • © 2025 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd
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Citation Marcello Vichi et al 2025 Environ. Res.: Climate 4 025005

Vichi et al 2025 paper