Volunteer rescuers have freed a humpback whale entangled in ropes at a Skye salmon farm. The animal was spotted in difficulty at Organic Sea Harvest's Invertote site near Staffin in the north of the ...

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

BOSTON - About 75 North Atlantic right whales, representing about 20% of the critically endangered species' population worldwide, have gathered in an area off the coast of New England. A aerial ...

J35, also known as Tahlequah, is seen pushing her dead calf, J61, near Seattle, Wash., on Jan. 1. (NOAA Fisheries) The post detailing the sighting says observers "were not seeing much of the ...

A mother killer whale whose calf died more than two weeks ago has recently been spotted still carrying the newborn’s carcass in waters off Victoria. The Center for Whale Research says in a ...

A ‘Blue Whale’ submarine weighting 5.5 ton has been deployed to monitor saboteurs working for Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. Russian and Chinese vessels routinely circulate its waters ...

As wildfires ravaged greater Los Angeles last week, the J. Paul Getty Museum faced encroaching flames on two fronts. Blazes nearly surrounded the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, coming within ...

Picture: Getty Images via AFP The country’s richest museum has both the experience and the resources to successfully fight back: It has a $9.1 billion endowment and has also faced down wildfires ...

His work has previously appeared in The Berkshire Eagle and Luxe Interiors + Design. Getty Two humpback whales swam to freedom after local responders helped the animals escape life-threatening ...

The federal government is withdrawing proposed rules that would have required more ships to slow down in East Coast waters to ...

Stan Grossfeld/The Boston Globe via Getty Images NOAA permit ... collision deaths of right whales in recent years. In one much-publicized case last year, a calf stranded off the state of Georgia ...

In one much-publicized case last year, a calf stranded off the state of Georgia had head injuries consistent with a vessel strike, according to government investigators. The whales numbered more ...