The sighting excites the researchers, but it also sounds alarms. Scientists stunned after whales make extraordinary ...

The decline of the island’s ice and increasingly volatile weather have made it hard to maintain some Indigenous traditions.

Yet, as exchanges go, it was far less awkward than most between Americans and Greenlanders these days. Greenland is an ...

A trio of researchers has found evidence of the impact of the Late Antique Little Ice Age on Iceland almost 1,500 years ago.

North Atlantic right whales are typically spotted off Cape Cod this time of year. Koala and Curlew, both females, were seen ...

Gray whales, a signature of the Washington coast, are dying by the thousands, victims of declines in Arctic sea ice.

The New England Aquarium identified the pair as 16-year-old “Koala” and 14-year-old “Curlew,” both females. And this, too, is ...

NOAA Fisheries has been tracking the two whales since they entered the Gulf of Mexico in February. NOAA photo The mysterious saga of two “out-of-habitat” whales has taken another strange turn ...

For the first time ever, two North Atlantic right whales have been spotted in the Bahamas. The critically endangered species has never before been documented in that country’s waters.

Sperm whales, the planet’s largest toothed predator, have incredibly complex social structures and cultural practices. During a recent WWF-backed research expedition around Greece’s northwestern ...

Hargrove: Daniel He’s a whistle-blower who carried an actual whistle, which he wore around his neck during his 12 years as a trainer of killer whales at SeaWorld theme parks. The whistle ...

First with whalers and now with whale watchers, Southeast Alaska has earned a reputation as a hot spot for whales. As a filmmaker and writer specializing in whale subjects, I first visited Alaska ...