From December through March every year, the waters off Georgia’s coast provide calving grounds for the estimated 70 remaining ...

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

Two female right whales traveled across the U.S. Gulf coast during the winter which is rare for the endangered whales, ...

Commercial fishermen who hoped for a loosening of fishing regulations during President Donald Trump’s administration faced a ...

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

A Massachusetts court on Monday restored federal protections for endangered whales off New England against entanglement in ...

The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), part of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), will ...

Whales are gathering in large numbers off New Jersey in a portion of the Atlantic Ocean called the New York Bight, according to several sources.

North Atlantic right whales, a rare species conservationists have aimed to safeguard, have been injured or killed by collisions with vessels along the East coast. In August 2022, the National ...

Entangled right whales may end up dragging hundreds of pounds of fishing gear, inhibiting their ability to feed, reproduce, or move freely through the water. Fishing gear can also cause cuts and other ...

The New England Aquarium called the decision a “serious setback for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale,” saying ... least four deaths and five injuries due to vessel strikes ...

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