Although we humans certainly do like to think of ourselves as smart, we only just discovered a new species of whale. The Rice ...

The U.S. federal government has rescinded its proposal to strengthen regulations on boat speeds along the East Coast. Fewer ...

Conservation groups are concerned that the endangered right whale is vulnerable to extinction as the Trump administration ...

The proposed rules would have slowed more ships to prevent collisions with endangered North Atlantic right whales.

The organization's Marine Animal Rescue and Response Team was busier in the first nine months of 2024 than all of 2023, ...

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

Massachusetts politicians were fine with the economic costs of protecting endangered species – but only when it meant ...

The federal government is withdrawing a proposal that would require more ships to slow down in East Coast waters to try to save a vanishing species of whale, officials said Wednesday. The move in ...

The World Sustainability Organization estimates as many as 20,000 whales are killed every year by boats, from fishing vessels to cruise ships. It says shipping companies can protect the species by ...

The most famous fictional tale about a whale is, of course, Moby Dick. Captain Ahab is obsessed with finding and killing the ...