Sailing through the Arctic should’ve been a moment of pure wonder — and it was, until we saw the contrast. Giant, hauntingly beautiful whale bones lay beside piles of discarded trash.

On Thursday, dozens of volunteers gathered on the Anchorage mudflats to cut apart the 47-foot-long juvenile fin whale that ...

NOAA is working with the museum on a request for an authorization under the Marine Mammal Protection Act that would allow the organization to collect and display the fin whale bones for ...

Salmon were once a rare sighting in the Alaskan Arctic. But warming temperatures have made them more common up there, and ...

With much of it covered in ice all year round and with no daylight from October to March, the Arctic Ocean is one of ... The white beluga whale is a very distinctive species.

Now a crew of biologists, students, volunteers and onlookers is breaking down the carcass in order to send the whale's bones to their permanent home at a Wasilla museum. Earlier this month ...