Whale watching tours are struggling in Maine. For years, whale watching tours didn’t have to venture far into the Gulf of Maine to find whales. Now, whale watching tours are switching to nature on land tours as the whales are harder to find. Oceanic warming has doubled. Whales are moving to cooler water further north to find food. NOAA has conducted research in the Gulf of Maine and discovered the Gulf of Maine is warming faster than 99% of the rest of Earth’s oceans. The Gulf of Maine stretches from Cape Cod to Nova Scotia. Rising air temperatures and greenhouse gas concentrations are causing oceanic warming worldwide. A new phenomenon called Marine Heat Waves caused by warming oceanic waters. Ice melt in Greenland is pushing fresh cooler water into the ocean disrupting the ocean currents. These changing patterns bring warmer currents into the area causing herring and sandlace fish to find cooler waters. Whales are moving to water where the herring and sandlace fish escaped to. Whales are navigating to waters that haven’t adapted to protect them. Whales changing locations affects the birth rates as well. The Gulf of Maine is becoming a desert as ocean life moves to cooler waters.