The polar bear has become an icon of global warming vulnerability, but a new study found an Arctic mammal that may be even more at risk to climate change: the narwhal.
... has widened divisions between hunting and tourism interests. Narwhals are a small Arctic whale with a single long ...
At least 200 narwhal whales in Canada's Arctic, trapped by winter ice that is setting in around them and facing starvation or suffocation, must be culled, officials said Friday.
A federal researcher says he hopes satellite imagery of the area around Pond Inlet, Nunavut, will help determine how more than 500 narwhals became trapped in sea ice near the Baffin Island community.
People in a Baffin Island community say the bounty provided by the cull of more than 600 narwhals trapped in the sea ice near Pond Inlet has left them happier and healthier in time for the holidays.
... of their time is spent at the surface," says Richard. There is also the problem of narwhal sighting distance. "The further the animal is away ... from instrumented animals, they developed a method for estimating how many narwhals are submerged. They also created a process to estimate the proportion ...
... there in the early 2000s. Temperatures in the study were collected by narwhals, medium-sized toothed Arctic whales ...
SEATTLE, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. climate scientists hoping to collect sea temperature data in the icy, remote waters of Baffin Bay say they have enlisted some unusual helpers -- narwhals.
OTTAWA, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Canadian Inuit say they're considering suing the Canadian government for banning the export of tusks from narwhal whales, depriving the Inuit of income.
Scientists will track a pod of narwhals as it moves to its wintering grounds via satellite. Conservationists are concerned ...
Hunters in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, celebrated after catching 10 narwhals – a rare occurrence in the western Arctic.
... beaked, sperm, killer and beluga whales and narwhals as well as dolphins and porpoises. Recent studies ...
... and include beaked, sperm, killer and beluga whales and narwhals as well as dolphins and porpoises. read ...
Spectacular footage of elusive narwhal is captured by a BBC team.
... video of narwhals migrating through channels in the Arctic ice does not need the dramatic music ...
