North Atlantic right whales’ ill-fated encounters with humans didn’t begin in 2017. By the early 1890s, commercial whalers had hunted them to the brink of extinction, according to NOAA.

North Atlantic right whales are an endangered species in "crisis," according to a fact sheet from the NOAA Fisheries Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Conservation Division, with fewer than 350 ...

The Canadian government says it is taking steps this summer to protect a vanishing species of whale from lethal collisions ...

This April 3, 2024, photo released by the Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center, taken under NOAA permit #24359, shows a dead North Atlantic right whale on a Virginia beach.

The North Atlantic right whale is one of the world’s most endangered large whale species, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

North Atlantic right whale mother "Swerve" and calf, one of the mother/calf pairs in the 2023/2024 calving season, sighted south of Chatham in April. Photo taken by the Center for Coastal Studies ...

This critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, catalog no. 3430, and her calf were seen off Amelia Island, Florida on Dec. 18, 2021. It was the 18-year-old whale's second calf.

NOAA Fisheries announced Jan. 15 that it withdrew a proposal that would have expanded existing right whale protections. Collisions with boats traveling at higher speeds are more likely to be fatal ...

This is the second North Atlantic right whale to be found dead off the U.S. coast in less than a month. On Jan. 28, a dead female right whale washed up near Joseph Sylvia State Beach on Martha's ...

In a blog post, NOAA said North Atlantic right whales are approaching extinction with fewer than 350 individuals remaining. That number includes fewer than 70 reproductively active females.

NOAA Fisheries on Wednesday announced it is tabling a proposal to strengthen protections for critically endangered North Atlantic right whales against vessel strikes.. The decision was welcomed by ...

Beginning in 2017, NOAA said that North Atlantic right whales have been undergoing an “unusual mortality event” caused by human impacts. The species’ deaths are outpacing its births and, ...