This story appears in the August 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Kamchatka Peninsula, rugged and remote, is a vast blade of land stabbing southwestward through cold seas from the ...

A type of toxic seaweed called Karenia, along with the low level of oxygen in the water, caused the mass deaths of marine animals in the Pacific Ocean’s Avacha Bay located in Kamchatka ...

It’s a pretty appropriate name given where H. hades lives; the trench extends down to the hadal zone, itself named after ...

They are most common on the Kamchatka Peninsula ... In addition to fish, they eat crabs, shellfish, squid, small animals, ducks, gulls, and carrion. Steller's sea eagles do not occur in large ...

In 2003, a net encircled members of several pods of killer whales in Kamchatka waters. The hunters had no experience in capturing orcas, and as a result, several whales became entangled in the net.

where a massive stranding of sea animals was seen on the shore PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, October 5. / TASS /. The Kamchatka Region administration are considering three reasons for water pollution ...