Despite an international moratorium on commercial whaling, Norwegians like Kristiansen persist in hunting minke whales—though ... chain as “a land in the Arctic Ocean that all the boys along ...

Svalbard is a key origin point for Arctic cruises, where trips have doubled since 2016. Climate change is melting ice more ...

Experts are puzzled how the whale managed to stray so far from its natural habitat - the cold waters of the Arctic and sub-Arctic. Belugas occasionally venture south in the autumn to feed as ice ...

Pioneering research to protect and conserve Arctic whale populations is to begin under a new five-year collaboration between ...

minke whales, killer whales, beluga whales, walruses, and other pinnipeds. Because of the shrinking ice cover in the Arctic in summer, navigation in the area has doubled over the past decade ...

Encounter whales (and whale sharks, too) in quiet, relaxing destinations like the Maldives, Sri Lanka, the ice caps and Baja California Sur.

Has commercial whaling affected genetic variation in Arctic whales? That was the question we set out to answer for both ...

Minke whale sightings were concentrated in shallower ... The global sea regions surveyed include the Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic and Southern Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea.

Plans to open a vast area of the Arctic seabed to mining will ... host to 12 species of marine mammals including minke, ...

The living ranges of the narwhal whales overlap with those of the bowheads in the Arctic. Narwhals were central to northern European mythology about the legendary unicorn due to their distinctive ...

The living ranges of the narwhal whales overlap with those of the bowheads in the Arctic. Narwhals were central to northern European mythology about the legendary unicorn due to their distinctive ...