Climate Researchers Employ Tool From 1800s: Whaling Logs
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — Maritime historians, climate scientists and ordinary citizens are coming together on a project to study 19th-century whaling ship logbooks to better understand modern day climate change.
Whaling ships kept meticulous daily logbooks of weather conditions during their often yearslong voyages searching the globe for the whales valued for their light-giving oil...