One of the most endangered whales on the planet, the North Atlantic right whale, is getting millions of dollars in new funding to help ward off the specter of extinction, the federal government ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- An ocean-going system, which is protecting whales here in the Bay Area, is expanding to the East Coast and Canada. Doug McCauley directs the Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory at ...

Scientists are working to protect right whales off the Carolina, Georgia and Florida coast with the use warning systems to ...

Off the coast of Nova Scotia, the Gully—a vast underwater canyon—has become a safe haven for endangered northern bottlenose ...

CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — United States Senator Lindsey Graham (R, SC) stated his opposition to the proposed National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's rule regarding the North Atlantic ...

Activists are calling for a limited, whale protection zone off San Juan Island to help the declining local population of endangered orcas. The protection zone could include a no-wake speed limit to ...

There are two groups specializing in trying to protect the severely endangered North Atlantic Right Whale, of which only about 340 critters remain alive, fewer every month, it seems. One is new and ...

The Rice's whale in the Gulf of Mexico is an endangered animal that is estimated to only have 50-100 individuals left in its population. (Image courtesy of NOAA via Courthouse News) (CN) — The Biden ...

The administration cites whale protection in its anti-wind agenda. But that concern vanishes for fossil fuel projects in whale habitat. President Donald Trump has repeatedly framed his efforts to kill ...

PORTLAND, Maine — A coalition of environmental groups has sued the federal government to try to force the finalization of ship speed rules that the groups say are critically important to save a ...

The good news is there have been no confirmed reports of North Atlantic right whales killed this year due to vessel strikes or entanglements from fishing gear, but the less-than-good news is that this ...