April 24 marks the second annual North Atlantic Right Whale Day in Massachusetts. The right whale is the official marine mammal of Massachusetts, and this holiday helps raise awareness about one ...

An endangered North Atlantic right whale was found dead offshore near Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, marking the 40th death in the ongoing “unusual mortality event” impacting the species.

A North Atlantic right whale and her calf were spotted near Cape Cod Bay on Monday marking the first 2024 sighting of a right whale calf in the waters off Massachusetts, according to researchers ...

RHODE ISLAND (WJAR) — A North Atlantic right whale was spotted approximately 50 miles south of Block Island entangled in rope. Officials saw the whale during an NOAA aerial survey on Tuesday.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported the whale’s death in the offshore waters east of Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge Tuesday and identified the whale as adult ...

An increasingly deadly year for the endangered North Atlantic right whale got worse this week when another member of the species was killed in a collision with a ship, federal authorities said ...

The situation is dire for critically-endangered North Atlantic right whales, a species that could be functionally extinct by 2035 as it faces risks from human activities and climate change.

Wild horses will stay in North Dakota national park as officials reject removal of herd from Badlands, key lawmaker says BISMARCK, N.D. -- Wild horses will stay in North Dakota national park as ...

Five endangered North Atlantic right whale mother and calf pairs have arrived off the coast of southern New England so far in the spring of 2024. The Center for Coastal Studies based out of ...

This shrinking deep-ocean branch—that scientists call the abyssal limb—is part of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a three-dimensional system of ocean currents that act ...

A North Atlantic right whale who recently gave birth to her sixth calf was found dead off the coast of Virginia on Saturday, according to the New England Aquarium. The whale, which researchers had ...