For almost two decades the team has been using free-floating "sonobuoys" as "listening stations," to detect, track and record Antarctic blue whale and other whale sounds. Spending more than eight ...

She and her colleagues also filmed an Antarctic blue whale mother and calf - the biggest animals on Earth - feeding in the same area. Mothers and calves, filmed by an international research team ...

"The change of seasons causes surface melting far inland from the coastal ice front," glaciologist Christopher Shuman said.

Up to 26,545 blue whale songs in the Antarctic were captured by scientists in a study. They used - for the first time - new acoustical detection and tracking techniques to locate and observe them.

Argentina will make available a Coast Guard vessel in support of the ‘Antarctic Blue Whale Project’ and associated research activities planned for the 201314 season and coming years ...

When I visited in the Antarctic summer month of December with ... used in what was once the world’s only on-land and biggest whale abattoir face a similar fate. Dead penguins and a lone departed ...

Webjørn Barstad, CEO of the new company, Aker BioMarine Antarctic, said developing new technologies to mitigate risks of whale mortalities is a top priority ... a little bit out of the blue, I think ...

80p – Antarctic blue whale The underwater vocalizations of blue whales were recorded using sono-buoys: acoustic devices which enable whale calls to be detected and the direction they come from ...

Amongst other places, the blue whale is native to the Southern Ocean, which surrounds Antarctica. The massive whale is slightly longer than three London double decker buses parked in a line ...

A blue whale has washed up dead on a beach in Japan ... During the summer months, the mammals are often found near Antarctica. Japan still has a whaling fleet but insists its hunting programme ...