Vessel strikes and fishing gear entanglements are the leading causes of whale deaths, threatening species from humpbacks to the endangered North Atlantic right whale. This free online course will ...

The number of large whale entanglements in U.S. waters increased steeply in 2024, with California seeing the most of the incidents, a U.S. government report said.

Waters off California, Massachusetts, Alaska, and Hawaii saw a sharp rise in whale entanglements part of a nationwide ...

While orcas, also known as "killer whales," are a common sight in the northeast Pacific Ocean, they’re rarely detected in the northwest Atlantic Ocean, where little is understood about pods that swim ...

Of the 95 entanglement cases documented by NOAA, 46 were directly attributed to specific commercial or recreational fisheries ...

According to a new report by NOAA Fisheries, the number of large whale entanglements recorded by the agency in 2024 was ...

The North Atlantic right whale is among the species that are at-risk of extinction in Canada according to a new report from ...

Now, after a set of fossilized remains was found along a river in Japan, a new species of prehistoric right whale has been discovered.

The news from NOAA Fisheries came with the release of its National Report on Large Whale Entanglements Confirmed in the ...

Researchers documented 95 large whales entangled in fishing gear in the United States in 2024. That’s an increase from 2023 ...

Thirty years ago, scientists and conservationists believed whales were on the path to recovery: cutting-edge satellite ...

Nearly 100 whales were entangled in fishing lines last year, the highest number in five years, according to a new report from ...