Plans to open a vast area of the Arctic seabed to mining will cause “irreversible harm” to unique and vulnerable wildlife and ...

During the summer, the whales spend their days in the Arctic waters, leaving in September for the warmer ... as well as finback whales, minke whales, and common dolphins. You can also see whales in ...

Humpbacks are the most widely spread whales in the world; however, they are spotted quite rarely in Scotland. They mostly migrate through Scotland on the way from warm tropical water to the Arctic.

Head north and you’ll reach Dalvik, where a ferry runs to Grimsey island – the only part of Iceland crossed by the Arctic Circle ... orcas and minke whales frequent the water.

Dynamic and changing Arctic Ocean conditions likely caused three major mortality events in the eastern North Pacific gray whale population since the 1980s, a new study has found. During each of ...

A dead minke whale washed up along the Ventura County coast last week, but the tides kept a team from examining the young ...

OSLO (Reuters) - A beluga whale discovered with a harness strapped around its neck in Norwegian waters five years ago - and found dead on Aug. 31 - had a stick stuck in its mouth and its death was ...

Norway and Russia share a maritime border in the Arctic, leading to jokes that the whale was a Russian spy. Norwegian police had opened an investigation into the death of the animal after two ...