A bowhead whale mother and calf in the eastern Canadian Arctic. Bowhead whales were heavily affected by commercial whaling. Photo: Caila Kucheravy, CC BY-NC This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article....
Researcher Susannah Calderan about to deploy one of the sonobuoys used to record blue whale calls and songs. Photo: Dave Allen, Australian Antarctic Division The study analyzed data across the Southern Ocean from 2006 until 2021. Its results are great news for a...
On this photo from April 2023, Roberta Tuurraq Glenn-Borade and three local trail inspectors are seen on the sea ice near Utqiagvik. Photo: Alaska Arctic Observatory and Knowledge Hub Every spring, scientists in Arctic Alaska map safe routes across the ice so local...
Fin whales are the second largest whales after blue whales. With the beginning of industrial whaling in the 20th century, they became the most hunted whales in the world. (Photo: Julia Hager) Whaling in the 20th century wiped out 99 percent of the...
Whale bones next to the former whaler’s pier in Grytviken. On South Georgia, whale bones are still shattered along the coast, relatively well preserved because of the low temperatures. However, rising temperatures due to climate change could destroy the DNA in...
