"His single recent sample comes from Barrow, one of the only places available to scientists..."

So what is it that you are trying to tell us, Adam Popescu, Special to the Washington Post? That Barrow is one of the one, one of the few, one of the ......? Be Special and stop using nonsense phrases.

Regardless, will we see an overpopulation of bowhead whales, as their food base expands? Can whales, unlike humans, learn how to not overpopulate their habitat?