Like the legendary Moby Dick, the full-grown beluga whale is snowy white. Yet unlike Herman Melville's mostly fictitious albino sperm whale, which had only Captain Ahab to deal with, the beluga swims ...

Beluga whales are some of the most distinctive marine mammals, with their white bodies and rounded foreheads. They are also well-known for their vocalizations, which have led to them being called the ...

A Cook Inlet beluga whale mother and neonatal calf swim together. (Public domain photo by Hollis Europe and Jacob Barbaro/NOAA Fisheries) A federal judge is sending Interior Department officials back ...

Our parents raised us on the north end of Chisik Island in the mouth of Tuxedni Bay on the west side of Cook Inlet. Mom and Dad started setnetting there in 1970. We grew up in a subsistence lifestyle ...

The Trump administration on Friday affirmed a controversial federal Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale held at the end of 2022, asserting that impacts to endangered beluga whales and other resources ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An environmental review underpinning a 2022 oil and gas lease sale in Alaska failed to properly analyze the potential impacts on endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales, a federal ...

Cook Inlet beluga whales, an endangered Alaskan population of about 300, use distinct call types for different activities.

Federal officials reaffirmed the results of a past oil and gas lease sale in Alaska’s Cook Inlet, setting the stage for further drilling that environmental groups have fought over worries about whales ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The beluga whales of Alaska's Cook Inlet are endangered and require additional protection to survive, the government declared Friday, contradicting Gov. Sarah Palin, who has ...

The Bush administration yesterday named the beluga whale in Alaska's Cook Inlet an endangered species despite opposition to the move by Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee. By ...