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World's smallest whale population faces extinction

The world's smallest known whale population has dwindled to about 30 individuals, only eight of them females, according to a study released Tuesday.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 30, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Feds give sea otters habitat protection in Alaska

(AP) -- Four years after being placed on the Endangered Species List, the dwindling sea otters of southwest Alaska on Wednesday were given an important recovery tool.

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

King crab family bigger than ever

Sally Hall, a PhD student at the University of Southampton's School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES) at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) has formally described four new species of king ...

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Walrus herds gather on Alaska's northwest shore

(AP) -- Large herds of Pacific walrus have begun gathering on the northwest coast of Alaska, again forsaking sea ice for sand in what has become a symbol of climate warming in the region.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Russia's Kamchatka volcanoes calm after eruptions

(AP) -- Two volcanoes that erupted on the far-eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, blanketing a town with dust and spreading ash clouds across the Pacific, have mostly stopped spewing ash and flights are no long ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 29, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists worry North Pacific salmon may run out of food

With the number of salmon in the North Pacific having doubled in the past 50 years, scientists are increasingly concerned there may not be enough food to support them, and changing ocean conditions could make it even worse.

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 28, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Bering Sea chill yields fatter plankton, pollock diet changes

Despite a 30-year warming trend, the last three years in the Bering Sea have been the coldest on record. A University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist says that the cold temperatures have helped produce larger zooplankton in ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 09, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

TacSat-4 enables polar region SatCom experiment

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter HEALY (WAGB 20) successfully experimented with NRL's TacSat-4 communications satellite, Jan. 24, by communicating from the Bering Sea off the western coast of Alaska to Coast Guard ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Over 100 Beluga whales 'trapped in Bering Sea'

Over 100 Beluga whales are trapped in water between ice floes in the Chukotka region of Russia's Far East, the authorities said, calling on the government to send an ice-breaker to free them.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Plan would ban U.S. commercial fishing in Arctic Ocean

Federal fishery regulators Thursday approved an unprecedented plan to ban U.S. commercial fishing in the Arctic Ocean.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (7) | comments 0