With Arctic freeze-up coming later, some belugas delay fall migration
The annual freeze-up in Arctic waters off Alaska is coming later, and some beluga whales seem to have taken notice.
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Whaling ship wreckage found off Arctic Alaska
When pack ice shifted to trap 33 commercial whaling ships off Alaska’s Arctic coast in the fall of 1871, more than
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Polar bears increasingly coming ashore in Arctic Alaska
By Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch Piles of bowhead whale bones and blubber left on an Arctic beach by North Slope
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Canadian narwhal tusk smuggler faces extradition hearing
A man from New Brunswick in Atlantic Canada, who was convicted of smuggling narwhal tusks into the United States, is
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Weather changes disrupt subsistence hunt in Arctic Alaska
Opportunities to safely hunt whales and caribou in one northwestern Alaska village have diminished because treacherous winds have become more
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Gray whale baby boom holding strong despite persistent sea ice in 2012
It’s apparently a good year to be a gray whale, despite menacing killer whales and the persistent sea ice around much
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