All aboard to the 49th U.S. State. Summertime Alaskan cruises are ideal for seeing this rugged landscape. As passengers glide by, the scenery is amazingly close with its bald eagles and unspoiled ...

Tongass is not only the largest temperate rain forest in the country, but the largest in the world. It's a thriving biodiversity hotspot and the perfect environment for brown bears, moose, wolves, ...

Tongass National Forest. Get a bird's-eye view of the 1,500-square-mile Juneau Icefield from a seaplane. Hop on a boat for a whale watching and wildlife viewing tour where you may spot humpback or ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (KTUU) - Juneau is one of the world’s most popular whale-watching destinations, where hundreds of thousands of visitors flock each year in hopes of spotting humpback whales migrating ...

Experts say humpback mothers do not give birth in the Salish Sea. Calves are normally born over the winter in warmer waters. They say Big Mama is a member of a whale population that’s based in ...

The first baby humpback whale of the season has been spotted swimming in the Salish Sea off Washington, photos show. Big Mama was seen with her baby Wednesday, May 21, in the Haro Strait ...

Humpback whales bubble net feeding, North Pass, Southeast Alaska. Image by Gillfoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. While humpback whales are not considered endangered, they still face threats ...

Humpback whale (M. novaeangliae) eye used in this study. Frontal plane (a) and sagittal plane (b) of the eye are shown, as well as the bisected eye (c) following removal of the retina.

A humpback whale calf breaches in Juneau’s North Pass. ... Heidi Pearson, a marine biology professor at the University of Alaska Southeast, leads the Juneau Whale HEALTH Project.

“Humpback whale sightings in Hawaii and southeast Alaska dropped for a few years afterward, and to this day have not recovered to the numbers beforehand,” says Stack.

This was just a small portion of the Tongass National Forest. At 16.8 million acres, it's America's largest woodland, containing 30 percent of the remaining temperate rainforest on earth. The Tongass ...

Humpback Whales Bubble Net Feeding, Juneau, Alaska. Image by Gillfoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The discovery of this novel whale song pattern represents one of the most significant ...