An endangered whale that has only been seen off Canada's west coast twice in the last 50 years has been seen alive and well in BC waters.

An off-course beluga whale was spotted splashing around near London, and Brits can’t quite believe it.

Ice in the north Bering Sea is diminishing, researchers aboard a Coast Guard ship report.

Walruses over the last decade have come to shore on the Alaska and Russia sides of the Chukchi Sea as sea ice diminishes because of global warming.

Scientists are baffled by a wave of whale deaths - which saw more carcasses wash up on the coasts of Scotland and Ireland in the past month than in the previous decade.

Deaths of gray and harbor seals, in much greater numbers than usual, have been attributed to viruses related to distemper and the flu.

NOAA and NASA satellites measured an average sea-surface temperature of 68.93 degrees Fahrenheit in the Gulf of Maine on Aug. 8, only 0.05 degrees below the all-time record high of 68.98 set in 2012. It is the epicenter of the U.S. lobster fishing industry, an important feeding ground for rare North Atlantic right whales .

Why did the sea lion cross the road? Scientists don't know yet.

But the appearance of new chemicals is creating an uncertain future for polar bears, orcas and seabirds.

A marine biologist at the Marine and Freshwater Research institute who specializes in whales says that it’s rare for pilot whales to venture so far north, but said that it’s possible that the pilot whales' appearance in Iceland’s waters can be credited to warming ocean temperatures.

A man from Nunavut has been killed in a polar bear attack, according to local RCMP. A polar bear mother and cub were destroyed at the scene. This is the second fatal polar bear attack in Nunavut this summer

Scientists are working to find the cause of death of a massive 50,000 pound whale that washed up on shore.

The IWDG says a minimum of 16 beaked whale deaths were recorded along the North West coast of Ireland from Galway to Donegal between 3 and 22 August, 2018.

A member of a species of critically endangered whale that is struggling with poor reproduction has been found dead off of Massachusetts.

A lone hiker in East Iceland found a wandering walrus, and managed to snap some fantastic photos.

Many of the dead seals that washed ashore in northern New England in the past few weeks tested positive for either avian influenza or phocine distemper virus, but it is still too soon to say if those viruses are the primary causes of the unusual die-off.

Nine whales have been stranded so far this year in East Iceland. Bottlenose whales and Curvier’s beaked whales are members of the family Ziphiidae and it’s often been said that they are more sensitive to noise pollution in the ocean.

Preliminary results suggest that avian flu and/or phocine distemper virus may be contributing to the elevated seal strandings in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts since June 1, 2018.

Unusual Stellar sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) sighting in Utqiaġvik.