A recent decision by the U.S. government to drop a proposed rule aimed at protecting endangered North Atlantic right whales ...

A right whale is shown in the Bay of Fundy. (Photo by Moira Brown/courtesy of the New England Aquarium) Federal regulators are abandoning a proposal to expand ocean speed limits that were designed to ...

Researchers at Saint Mary's University have acquired funding that will help them update a DNA database for the critically ...

An anti-offshore wind group is petitioning the federal government to establish a safe corridor for critically endangered ...

putting whales in danger They are currently fewer than 350 North Atlantic right whales left in the ocean. In the last seven years, 36 were killed, with 21 of those deaths caused by vessel strike ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting new federal leases for offshore wind projects. He cited the impact ...

North Atlantic right whales are among the most endangered whales ... Albert said. Increasing ocean noise levels are also a concern because it may interfere with their communications and increase ...

The whales travel along the East Coast's near ... American businesses and families that rely on access to the Atlantic ocean,” said the Marine Manufacturers Association's Hugelmeyer.

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