Travel Guide to Alaska highlights the state's natural beauty, wildlife, Indigenous culture, and vast wilderness, popular for ...

The most-read story is headlined “Survival of world’s oldest humpback whale, spotted in Southeast Alaska last month, is a mystery,” reprinted Aug. 14 from The New York Times (which the ...

It’s not a shock the most-read story of 2024 by a huge margin is from the first half of August. But it’s not about the seemingly obvious pick of record flooding of Suicide Basin. The most-read ...

Alaska's astounding beauty and vast wilderness ... turquoise ice calving in the bay from the glaciers, you might see humpback whales as long as 65 feet or black and brown bears up to 10 feet ...

In Southeast Alaska, calf survival rates fell tenfold ... “It is believed that humpback whales were unable to acquire sufficient food, resulting in nutritional stress and declines in ...

Humpback whales bubble net feeding, North Pass, Southeast Alaska. Gillfoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Experts have indicated that breaching and other aerial behaviors could help the whale to ...

They can be found on Unimak Island, throughout the mainland, and all of the significant Southeast islands ... are the perfect habitat for whales, the largest mammals on Earth. Several whale species ...

Scientists determined that the fishing gear recovered from the whales came from their feeding grounds in Alaska. The humpback whales migrate from Alaska every year to mate, give birth and nurse ...

The humpback that washed up dead in Long Beach this week has been identified as NYC0393, a playful and spirited cetacean who had become familiar to whale watchers last summer for her acrobatic ...

A young humpback whale washed ashore in Long Beach on Monday morning — with authorities now working to determine why it died, according to police. “Early this morning, a juvenile humpback ...