There may be less than 400 North Atlantic right whales left in the world. Save Long Beach Island members hope this fact helps ...

As the future of offshore wind energy remains up in the air, proponents and opponents of offshore wind have found common ...

Conservationists have pushed for additional right whale protections for decades. Now, they find themselves, and the whales ...

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

Shortly before Trump’s inauguration, a federal agency withdrew a proposal to protect North Atlantic right whales from vessel ...

Federal regulators are abandoning a proposal to expand ocean speed limits that were designed to protect North Atlantic right whales. The whales, which give birth off Georgia’s coast in the winter, are ...

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

“NOAA’s Right Whale Strike Reduction rule would have been extremely harmful to coastal economies in North Carolina. Its withdrawal is a victory for the Carolina coast and common sense.” NOAA did leave ...

A 26-foot humpback whale that was found deceased and entangled in commercial mussel-farming gear this week off Huntington ...

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

The withdrawal does not preclude NOAA from taking future action, including but not limited to initiating a new rule, to address ongoing lethal right whale vessel strikes. Legal disputes offshore ...