ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. government on Monday agreed to a request from environmental groups to study increasing critical habitat designations in Alaska waters for North Pacific right whales, ...

Somewhere out there on the beautiful briny sea, the world's 50 or so remaining Rice's whales are breathing a collective sigh of relief, safe from the clutches of former Congressman Matt Gaetz. Gaetz ...

The endangered whales face multiple threats, from a lack of their primary food, chinook salmon, to underwater noise from ...

A cornerstone U.S. law that has protected whales, seals, and polar bears for over 50 years is under threat as Republican ...

For $300, you can head over to the Battle Creek Habitat for Humanity ReStore and purchase your very own. On Thursday afternoon, the store posted a photo of the whale sitting outside their doors with a ...

The federal government issued a new "biological opinion" on the offshore wind power project off Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, finding that pile-driving noise associated with Vineyard Wind 1 is ...

A lawsuit on behalf of Gulf of California whales has been filed claiming they deserve legal protections equivalent to human ...

One of the world's rarest whales finds itself in greater jeopardy. That’s because the Trump administration lifted a layer of protection for the endangered Rice's whale. It is found only in the Gulf of ...

For the first time in recorded history, a group of bowhead whales has been spotted off the coast of British Columbia, far south of their typical Arctic habitat. Researchers from the University of ...

The mysterious saga of two “out-of-habitat” whales has taken another strange turn, with the pair showing up in a tropical region where the species isn’t known to exist, according to trackers. “In an ...

A new study reports that the Bird’s Head Seascape off Indonesia’s West Papua serves as a vital habitat for juvenile male whale sharks, but lift-net fisheries, tourism boats and emerging mining ...