From the entanglement of Shelagh, a critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, to the awe-inspiring appearance of the ...

Alaska is a fascinating state, being the largest in the Union. It’s also a geographical phenomenon, being the country’s official north, east, and west ends. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg, if ...

Scientists have been descending on the Alaska city of Barrow since 1973. This monument made of whale bones is to lost sailors. Associated Press No roads lead to Barrow, Alaska. To reach America ...

Whale meat is illegal to sell in most of the United States, but Iñupiat people and other Alaska Natives may sell ... Hyung moved to Utqiagvik, then called Barrow, in 1979 to wash dishes at ...

Veteran whalers told Alaska Public Media last year that the community of Utqiagvik had never gone that long without seeing a bowhead whale near Point Barrow during the fall hunting season.

As a result, bowhead whales, among other baleen whale family ... how the nutritional resources in the waters off of Point Barrow, Alaska support the local bowhead whales they so rely upon.

Thoman documented changes across Alaska in a new report ... hearing reports from the whalers out of Barrow saying they haven’t seen any whales,” said Ferguson, referring to the former ...

Everything about the city of Barrow, Alaska, is special ... But at the center of Inupiat culture is the whale: It is its food, its symbol, and its soul. Natasha Mozgovaya set off to Alaska ...

IT IS whaling season in Utqiagvik, the newly official—as well as ancient indigenous—name for Barrow, Alaska’s ... residents are focused on bowhead whales. Culturally and nutritionally ...

Whale bones in Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska. Credit: Brian / CC Flickr Museum collections across North America, for instance, include a dazzling array of objects categorized as whaling ...

Alaska, close to death, when he was visited by a baby whale. Although Brower’s body remained in Anchorage, the young bowhead took him more than 1,000 kilometers north to Barrow (now Utqiaġvik ...

Rural Alaska's Health Disparities Persist Nothing grows more than a few inches in Barrow, Alaska ... with the roughly 25 bowhead whales the community harvests annually serving as the centerpiece ...