Otters don't have a blubber layer like most marine mammals, it's the fur that keeps them warm and allows them to live in Alaskan waters." A sea otter feeding in Glacier Bay, Alaska photographed by ...

ANCHORAGE— The Trump administration issued final rules today allowing Hilcorp Alaska to harm beluga whales, sea otters and other marine mammals as the company expands its offshore drilling activities ...

For the first time, tiny bits of plastic have been found in body tissue of Pacific walruses, lodged in the animals’ muscles, ...

The authorization of the secretary of commerce to enter into cooperative agreements with Alaska Native organizations to conserve marine mammals and provide co-management of their subsistence use by ...

The state of Alaska is reluctant to cut hatchery production in Prince William Sound, where returning hatchery fish may make ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal notice today of its intent to sue the National Marine Fisheries Service for failing to protect marine mammals from being killed by ...

Powerful tools reveal hidden structure of harbor porpoise population. Harbor porpoises are shy, elusive creatures that live ...

The phenomenon known as a "rat spill" takes place when a ship carrying rats docks at, or sinks near, an island previously rat-free. The rats come ashore by way of the gangplanks and ropes tied to ...

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is working with the Matson Navigation Company in Hawaii to better protect marine mammals ...

Manulani and Manoa serve the Hawaii trade lane; Matson Kodiak serves Alaska. WHOI Associate Scientist ... cameras to monitor for marine mammals. "A highly stabilized thermal imaging camera is ...

Our journey through Alaska was more than just an exploration of conservation; it was a discovery of how nature can serve as a ...

Harms that embedded microplastics might cause to marine mammals are yet to be determined ... subsistence-harvested animals between 2000 and 2021 in Alaska, California and North Carolina. Twelve ...