The Jan. 30 online auction is the first of several this year. Here are the plates available and their starting prices.

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

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has awarded Saint Mary’s University a contract to update the DNA database of one of ...

NOAA has withdrawn vessel speed rule changes aimed at strengthening protections for North Atlantic right whales, drawing ...

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

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Federal regulators are abandoning a proposal to expand ocean speed limits that were designed to protect North ...

Biologists from the New England Aquarium say 20 percent of all the right whales in the world are together, right now, off the ...

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

and “Loki,” a whale who has only been seen in New England waters. The scientists conduct these types of aerial surveys to determine trends in where right whales appear so that they can help ke ...

The U.S. government recently dropped a proposed rule aimed at protecting the endangered North Atlantic right whale, a ...