While the sighting excites the researchers who found that only 10 previous sightings have been recorded in the last century, it also sounds alarms about the changing nature of our oceans. Bowhead ...

But this activity entails deafening sound: Even one low-frequency active sonar loudspeaker ... seismic surveys off the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that threatened bowhead whales. In 2011, we filed ...

Yugu Alfred Ningeok is the son of a whaling captain and a member of an Inupiat whaling crew. An umiak, or skin boat, carries a small team in pursuit of a whale. Hear more about camping on sea ice ...

Hess focuses on the hunt for the bowhead whale. He shows us how it feels to stand in an open boat bobbing on a frozen sea, waiting to take a harpoon-gun shot at a creature the size of an 18-wheeler.

Drones solve a 170-year-old mystery about bowhead whale behaviour Bowhead ... return to the shallow waters in Cumberland Sound every summer. The whales rest their heads and chins on the large ...