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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A deadly virus is striking Arctic whales. Humpback whales in Norway, along with one sperm whale and one pilot whale, were found to ...

A petition to list the eastern North Pacific gray whale on the federal endangered species list went unanswered last year. On Tuesday, three environmental groups threatened to sue the federal agency ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New sampling techniques allow researchers to better monitor pathogens in whale populations. They used humpback whales and sperm ...

HX Expeditions concludes Arctic season with 26,491 citizen science contributions and world-first AI whale detection trial ...

(Alaska Beacon) — Doug Nussbaum is a retired logger whose morning rituals include a walk down to the bluff behind his house that overlooks a bend in the Willapa River. He is never quite sure just what ...

If bowhead whales produce particularly varied and diverse calls in one area, it is very likely that the area is a breeding ground. The species occurs exclusively in the Arctic Ocean and is therefore ...

Rising toxins found in bowhead whales, harvested for subsistence purposes by Alaska Native communities, reveal ocean warming is causing higher concentrations of algal toxins in Arctic food webs, ...

Bowhead whales are the longest-lived mammals on Earth with some able to live hundreds of years. What’s more, Inuit hunters have observed these whales breaking ice over half a metre thick – ice strong ...

Monitoring the health of the world’s largest animals has always posed a challenge. Whales spend most of their lives underwater, migrate across vast distances, and are difficult to examine without ...

Belugas are also called white whales, and their unusual color makes them one of the most familiar and easily distinguishable ...

A petition to list the eastern North Pacific gray whale on the federal endangered species list went unanswered last year. On Tuesday, three environmental groups threatened to sue the federal agency ...