What do whale experts and alien hunters have in common? More than you might expect. For a recent study published in the peer-reviewed journal PeerJ, scientists from UC Davis, the Alaska Whale ...
The passage is generally considered to offer some of the best whale-watching waters in Alaska: a misty spout is a sure sign they’re in the neighborhood. It also holds plentiful populations of ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal notice today of its intent to sue the U.S. Maritime Administration for failing to consider shipping traffic’s harm to highly endangered ...
“We didn’t know how to age baleen whales until 1955, which was the very end of industrial whaling,” University of Alaska Fairbanks associate professor Greg Breed said in the news release.
Photo from Will Turner, UnSplash For years, drones have zipped over the coastlines of Hawaii and Alaska, tracking one of the world’s largest creatures: humpback whales. Flown by scientists ...