Researchers are pouring over old whaling-ship logs at the Providence Public Library to see if the records can help us ...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting new federal leases for offshore wind projects. He cited the impact ...
Whale sharks are drawn to natural underwater features such as seamounts and canyons as well as artificial features like ...
Federal regulators are abandoning a proposal to expand ocean speed limits that were designed to protect North Atlantic right whales. The whales, which give birth off Georgia’s coast in the winter, are ...
Shortly before Trump’s inauguration, a federal agency withdrew a proposal to protect North Atlantic right whales from vessel ...
In recent months, President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly said offshore wind turbines are harming, and perhaps killing, ...
For the first time, researchers have witnessed behaviour in the wild which could reveal critical clues about how the ...
A proposal to lower speed limits on waterways — boat strikes kill a large number of the whales — was dropped in face of next administration.
The aquarium maintains one of the longest-running right whale research programs in the country, and Redfern said the evidence is clear: The whales can recover, “if we stop killing them.” ...
Groundbreaking research in the late 1990s showed that Arctic-dwelling bowhead whales could live more than 150 or even 200 ...
It is unusual to see so many right whales off the Maine coast, especially this time of year, but research scientists with the ...
Federal officials have withdrawn a proposed slow zone for ferries, ships and large boats along the U.S. East Coast, after ...