Three conservation groups, the Conservation Law Foundation, Defenders of Wildlife, and Whale and Dolphin Conservation, ...

The U.S. government recently dropped a proposed rule aimed at protecting the endangered North Atlantic right whale, a ...

As the future of offshore wind energy remains up in the air, proponents and opponents of offshore wind have found common ...

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

Journalists accompany researchers to monitor presence of the rare North American right whales off the Georgia coast.

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

Over the past five years, at least 16 right whales have been killed or injured by vessel strikes, including four deaths and five injuries in the past two years, according to the aquarium.

The agency says 20 percent of North Atlantic right whales have died, suffered injuries or fallen sick over the past seven years, mostly from vessel strikes and entanglement in fishing gear.

Despite its best efforts, NMFS does not have sufficient time to finalize this regulation in this Administration due to the ...

She said right whales are particularly difficult ... With more "baseline data," she said it might be possible to say when a whale is injured or sick. Detecting such events early would allow ...

The S.C. State Ports Authority, which opposed a now-withdrawn proposal to slow ship speeds to protect North Atlantic Right ...

NOAA has withdrawn vessel speed rule changes aimed at strengthening protections for North Atlantic right whales, drawing ...