Little is known about Arctic killer whale prey preference or behavior, but new research has tried to determine the diet of the Arctic killer whale. It seems to prefer other whales over fish.

Loss of sea ice seriously affects polar bears and walruses, which utilize ice floes as hunting platforms

WWF is supporting a new project to track narwhals, Arctic whales best known for the long tusk that projects forward from their faces.

The sea ice is about two metres thick above frigid Arctic waters over 300 metres deep—and we are camping on it! It’s a strange sensation, knowing that there is nothing but frozen water between you, and water so cold it kills in less than four minutes. This clearly had an effect on Martin, a Swedish photographer, who had a nightmare on his first night out on the ice. “I dreamed that my body heat was melting the ice underneath me and my sleeping bag was about to sink into the depths,” he said, “I’m glad I woke up.”

On August 2, 2007, the weather was good at the North Pole. The sea was calm, the water temperature was just -1° C, with the air at a balmy 0° C. That morning two Russian mini submarines, Bathyscaphe Mir-1 and Mir-2, were sent down and at noon, Mir-1 touched down on the seabed at 4,261m, planting the Russian flag

Recovered artifacts may prove invaluable to help discover two missing Franklin expedition ships

Whale tagged with satellite transmitter completes 5,400-kilometre trip in a month In a remarkable month-long journey the whale swam 5,400 kilometres from northern Baffin Island, down past Greenland, Labrador and Newfoundland heading for the Azores in the mid-Atlantic