After two years of debate and 90,000 public comments, NOAA withdrew a contentious boat speed rule aimed at Atlantic right whale conservation.

The proposed rules would have slowed more ships to prevent collisions with endangered North Atlantic right whales.

The move in the waning days of the Biden administration will leave the endangered North Atlantic right whale vulnerable to ...

Many members of the international community consider whale-hunting a barbaric practice that should have been banned decades ago.  But some countries have ...

Groundbreaking research in the late 1990s showed that Arctic-dwelling bowhead whales could live more than 150 or even 200 ...

Watson has been fighting for the rights of whales and the wider environment for more than 50 years - and is showing no signs ...

Indonesia’s government says it has agreed with Japan to resume talks on the joint development of naval vessels that have ...

At the time, commercial whaling by countries such as Japan and the Soviet Union was driving ... In late June of 1976, the ship sailed from Mendocino Bay to San Francisco, where it began its ...

Since 2019 it has only caught whales in its own waters. But in May, Japan launched the Kangei Maru, a whaling mother ship. Activists believe this means Japan intends to resume whaling in the Southern ...

Most shipping paths cross whale habitats, a recent analysis concludes, making ship collisions a “major threat” to the world’s whales. The study, published in Science last month, conducted a ...