The study, published in Science Advances in December, not only adds to growing evidence of extreme whale longevity but also draws attention to the plight of North Atlantic right whales (E.

Stay 500 yards away, about the length of five football fields. This regulation applies to vessels, aircraft, drones and ...

The proposed changes, which they argued could hurt the fishing and boating industries and other related businesses.

The federal government is withdrawing proposed rules that would have required more ships to slow down in East Coast waters to ...

The organization's Marine Animal Rescue and Response Team was busier in the first nine months of 2024 than all of 2023, ...

Two more North Atlantic right whale calves have been sighted off the coast of the southeastern U.S., bringing the total number of calves so far this calving sea ...

Withdrawal of an environmental rule by NOAA with an estimated economic impact of $46.2 million along the Eastern Seaboard ...

Two pairs of female North American right whales and calves were spotted near north Florida Dec. 30, the FWC said. Getty Images/iStockphoto Two rare female whales have been documented off the coast ...

We attribute the stark difference in longevity in North Atlantic right whales to human-caused mortality, mostly from entanglements in fishing gear and ship strikes. We made these new age estimates ...

The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), part of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), will ...

The rule would have limited boats as small as 35 feet to 10 knots when North Atlantic right whales were migrating through ...