Since around 2015, female southern right whales have not given birth as often. These extended calving intervals mean fewer ...

The moon will pass directly in front of the sun on Feb. 17, setting the stage for a dramatic annular solar eclipse.

After years of work building an exquisitely sensitive instrument, University of Chicago scientists stood and watched as it flew up and out of sight into the fiercely blue Antarctic sky. Launched on ...

Scientists warn that growing rifts in Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier could speed up global sea level rise, heightening climate risks worldwide.

On Friday, the Trump administration rolled back protections for a marine national monument off the coast of Cape Cod.

In the gaps between the visible ice, humpbacks blow out steam in spouts of warm whale air. Then a transient type A orca more than six metres long swims right across our bow. The passengers – mostly ...

Over about five decades, Dolphin Action and Protection Group founder Nan Rice worked tirelessly to protect dolphins, whales ...

For most of their evolutionary history, narwhals have relied more on sound than sight to survive in the Arctic’s dark icy ...

Sixty years since Lars-Eric Lindblad led the first ‘citizen explorers’ expedition to the Antarctic, expedition specialists explain how to sell the frozen continent ...

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The Upsweep is an unidentified sound detected by the NOAA, first recorded in August 1991. Almost siren-like, the Upsweep is ...

The Protecting Blue Whales and Blue Skies (BWBS) program is expanding participation to cruise lines operating in California, according to a press release. The program said it has had a decade of ...