A federal appeals court is reinstating rules designed to protect a vanishing whale species from entanglement in fishing gear.

The endangered southern resident killer whales that visit Puget Sound were listed for protection under the federal Endangered ...

A recent decision by the U.S. government to drop a proposed rule aimed at protecting endangered North Atlantic right whales ...

Shortly before Trump’s inauguration, a federal agency withdrew a proposal to protect North Atlantic right whales from vessel ...

An anti-offshore wind group is petitioning the federal government to establish a safe corridor for critically endangered ...

Conservation groups are praising a recent decision to reinstate protections for endangered North Atlantic right whales in a ...

Between climate change and the effects of humanity on the environment, many species have been harmed. Here are a few of them ...

An 'imminent threat' assessment in November 2024 set a ticking legal clock that requires two ministers to recommend an ...

There may be less than 400 North Atlantic right whales left in the world. Save Long Beach Island members hope this fact helps ...

While biologists celebrate the calves of the highly endangered species, with an estimated 370 left in the wild, these births are evidence of a worrying phenomenon of right whales giving birth less ...

A system called "SAvE Whales," developed in Greece and tested in the Greek seas, aims to minimize the threat of ship strikes ...

Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the humpback whale population has recovered extensively over the past half a century. In 1960, numbers were estimated at around 5,000 animals. Today ...