LOS ANGELES, May 11 (Reuters) - Blue whales are vulnerable to cargo ship strikes because they are so used to being the largest animal in the ocean that they often fail to avoid the vessels, a Stanford ...

A family’s yacht was attacked by a pod of killer whales in the middle of the night, the latest in a series of similar incidents off the Portuguese coast. The Dutch family was sailing between Porto and ...

Blue whale calves enter the world already the size of a bus, yet they still face danger. A hungry killer whale sees a slow, ...

Ships are hitting and killing whales off the California coast at some of the highest rates in more than a decade, according to data obtained and tabulated by the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit. The ...

Protecting Blue Whales and Blue Skies (BWBS), a vessel speed-reduction program for safer whales, cleaner air, and a quieter ocean, has released a mid-season report on the 2025 season that runs May ...

Up until a few years back, many of the pygmy blue whales migrating to the south never made it to their destinations. Many of them got killed by the heavy ship traffic on the way. Given their quiet, ...

Assemblyman Gregg Hart, center, and environmental leaders celebrate the expansion of the California Protecting Blue Whales and Blue Skies Program on Tuesday at Santa Barbara's Sea Center, next to a ...