A group of scientists saw over 75 North Atlantic right whales gathered in the Gulf of Maine. Here's what we know.

The right whales were spread out over a 10-mile area just off the western edge of Jeffrey’s Ledge, which is a raised underwater feature along the coast of New Hampshire and Maine. Most of them ...

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

"When we see a calf, who the mother and father are is very helpful in understanding what the intervals are for the animals ... right whales alive today — containing over two million photographs ...

At the heart of the matter is the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, one of the world’s most endangered large whale species. Whalers decimated the population, bringing it to the ...

According to federal data, 15 of 36 documented right whale deaths between 2017 and 2024 were due to vessel strikes. That was the most deadly known cause. With ship strikes, including from small ...

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