In the summer of 2020, researchers from the University of Manitoba set up a time-lapse camera overlooking the Churchill River ...
In recent years, researchers have documented salmon surviving in North Slope rivers, bowhead whales expanding their foraging ...
Like many arctic whales, bowheads have no dorsal fin; this adaptation allows them to navigate underneath sea ice. Bowhead whales have two blowholes, producing a distinctive V-shaped spray. Their ...
Bowheads have the longest baleen (filter-feeding system) of any baleen whale, up to 13 feet long. They use their baleen to filter plankton from the water ...
Each spring, men and women spend weeks on the tuvaq—the ice near the water—watching for bowhead whales migrating north from the Bering Sea to the Canadian Arctic. When one is spotted ...
but also to the highly endangered North Pacific right whale and bowhead whale that frequent the Arctic’s icy waters. And introducing new black-carbon emissions from ships into the Arctic would ...
and collapsed ice cellars where Arctic hunters store walrus meat and bowhead whale blubber. Warm summers are already warping life for Arctic residents. What the Zimovs were documenting in 2018 ...
her project examines how a changing Arctic Ocean current, the Beaufort Gyre north of Alaska, coincided with migration patterns of the Bowhead whale, magnificent 60-ton creatures with a 200-year ...