Quincy Adams slices through bowhead whale meat to distribute to his family and community members in Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow), AK on April 24, 2024. (Valerie Lake/Alaska Public Media). For the Aaluk ...

A federal grand jury has charged the former director of the Eskimo Whaling Commission with stealing more than $100,000 from the organization over two years. Teresa Judkins, who had been employed by ...

BARROW, Alaska -- Nearly 350 miles above the Arctic Circle, a traditional Eskimo feast to celebrate a successful whale hunt is in the making. On the table, chopped-up chunks of wild fowl are ready for ...

Median noise levels will nearly quadruple across the pan-Arctic by 2030, relative to levels measured in 2019, according to a report produced by the Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment and the ...

An unsuspecting whale-hunting crew in Barrow, Alaska, discovered a "whale bomb" fragment in a 50-foot bowhead killed this spring. A Massachusetts whaling museum says the projectile dated to 1879. The ...

Biologist Craig George stands on Utqiagvik’s beach on Oct. 4, 2018. George, who went missing while rafting the Chulitna River last week, devoted much of his research to the effects of sea-ice loss. In ...