Oregon has a very specific pod of grey whales that stays off our coast year-round due to a normally stable food source. But as OSU Professor Leigh Torres explains, climate change is reducing that food...

The Endangered Species Act is wildly effective and widely popular. The law has prevented extinctions of numerous iconic species, recovered imperiled plants and animals, and protected the ecosystems we...

Collisions with ships are a leading anthropogenic killer of the Mediterranean’s two endangered large-bodied cetacean species, sperm and fin whales. In 2025, thousands of vessels traveled through the M...

Fishing industry and Indigenous community leaders in Australia's north are calling for further investigation into why dugong numbers appear to have declined by 50 per cent in the Gulf of Carpentaria, and what can be done to stop it.

When Florida's aging power plants shut down, thousands of manatees will lose their only winter warmth — and there's no natural refuge ready to replace it.

Up and down the Pacific coast, dead gray whales are mysteriously washing ashore—and scientists think they know why

Ngāti Te Wehi has gained 10,000 signatures to stop bottom trawling in Māui dolphin habitats, hoping the government will take action as the number reduces to 48.

From WA's capital to SA's far west coast, scientists have collated 50 years' worth of data on the southern right whale to track changes to breeding cycles.

Two more beluga whales have died at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium, including one that was moved in mid-August as part of an international effort to rescue Canada's last captive whales

Multiple environmental groups are concerned the Alberta government's proposed oil pipeline route poses a risk to southern resident killer whales. They are protected under the Species At Risk Act, but ...

His song can travel an entire ocean.Whales carry an extraordinary library of songs about migration routes, feeding grounds, and even relationships. While we humans write, they pass songs through gener

ALT: Our Home: Earth Spinning in Space

This week, as governments of various coastal states gather in Mombasa, Kenya, for the Our Ocean Conference, Africa must demand an end to industrial krill fishing in the Southern Ocean before irreversi...

Fishing is permitted in the Kaikōura sanctuary.

Campaigners tell of ‘chaotic scenes of extreme cruelty’ as three separate hunts are carried out, just hours after the Faroe Islands voted to remove protections for dolphins.

A key official recently cast doubt on whether the Rice’s whale is its own species, a talking point used by the oil and gas industry.

Most Australians assume our marine parks are protected from damaging activities like seismic blasting. But the truth might surprise you.  Seismic blasting is still allowed in about half of Australia’s...