The tide has turned on the conservation success story of the southern right whale. Once considered a global conservation ...

The U.S.’s ocean regulator plans to make industry-friendly changes to a longstanding rule designed to protect vanishing ...

International shipping company CMA CGM has stepped up its support for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, in more ways ...

Southern right whales are having fewer calves as sea ice shrinks. Scientists say this species may now be a warning sign of climate change.

A North Atlantic right whale washed ashore on a Virginia barrier island, according to federal scientists, marking the second ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration plans to make industry-friendly changes to a rule designed to protect vanishing whales.

Researchers say they see "positive news" in the latest population estimate for North Atlantic right whales, but stress that conservation measures are still needed to save the critically endangered ...

Once driven to the brink of extinction by commercial whaling, southern right whales slowly returned to Australian coastlines ...

BOSTON (WWLP) – The Massachusetts Environmental Trust (MET) announced its plans to auction low-number Right Whale and Roseate Tern license plates in support of marine conservation efforts. The auction ...

A North Atlantic Right Whale, previously found entangled in a rope off of south Georgia, has been discovered dead off the ...

One of the rarest whales on the planet has continued an encouraging trend of population growth in the wake of new efforts to protect the giant animals, according to scientists who study them.The North ...

A spectacular and rare sighting was captured on video off the Southwest Florida coast: An endangered right whale and her calf ...