Addison Shea's project involving Bowhead whales under consideration for the oldest and most prestigious STEM prize for high ...
Yugu Alfred Ningeok is the son of a whaling captain and a member of an Inupiat whaling crew. An umiak, or skin boat, carries a small team in pursuit of a whale. Hear more about camping on sea ice ...
About 150 years ago, a few days after summer solstice, the gray skies above the Diomede Islands were heavy with smoke from whaling ships set ablaze by Confederate sailors who ...
a ship commissioned by Confederate leaders to wreak havoc on Yankee whalers who were harvesting bowhead whales off the western and northern coasts of Alaska. Since the late 1970s, the University ...
These volunteers won’t let go of the cause as Russia’s war on Ukraine enters a fourth year. They’ve sent ambulances, ...
If nothing is done, extinction is a very real possibility. Researchers reveal troubling findings about whale lifespans: ...
NOME, Alaska -Along the remote western edge of ... Subsistence hunters harvested the same stocks of marine mammals: seals, walrus, bowhead whales. That travel ended when the “ice curtain ...
Bowhead Whale. Image via Wikimedia commons ... Arnoux’s beaked whales, often elusive and residing at great ocean depths, were spotted off the Alaskan coast. These enigmatic creatures are less ...
Bowhead whales are native to the icy waters of the Arctic ... The Mysterious Arnoux’s Beaked Whale in Alaska Arnoux’s beaked whale. Image via Wikimedia commons. Arnoux’s beaked whales, often elusive ...