Yugu Alfred Ningeok is the son of a whaling captain and a member of an Inupiat whaling crew. An umiak, or skin boat, carries a small team in pursuit of a whale. Hear more about camping on sea ice ...

The research team, collaborating with Indigenous subsistence hunters in Utqiaġvik, utilized chemical analyses of harvested bowhead whales to support their findings. The analysis indicates that ...

The goal of their research was to understand the interactions between beluga whales and marine vessels. However, what they captured was unexpected—a group of bowhead whales, a phenomenon never ...