Study Identifies which Marine Mammals are Most at Risk from Increased Arctic Ship Traffic

By Hannah Hickey | University of Washington on Jul 9, 2018   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

In August 2016, the first large cruise ship traveled through the Northwest Passage, the northern waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The following year, the first ship without an icebreaker plied the Northern Sea Route, a path along Russia’s Arctic coast that was, until recently, impassable by unescorted commercial vessels. In recent decades parts of the Arctic seas […]