"It would be crippling to Nantucket economically and probably pretty much any other way you can think of. They would probably ...

What would be the cost of trying to save whales from ship strikes? Nearly $300 million and 1,500 jobs for the island of ...

The endangered whales are North Atlantic right whales, which number fewer than 400 and are vulnerable to ship collisions and ...

A third endangered North Atlantic right whale was found tangled in fishing gear off the East Coast last Monday, just days ...

A study commissioned by the affluent Massachusetts island says loss of high-speed ferry service would result in a 10 percent ...

A North Atlantic right whale was seen near North Carolina wrapped in fishing rope and buoys. Two others were spotted off ...

Nantucket leaders' fear about the economic effect of proposed vessel speed limits are backed by a new study. Limits are ...

The sighting comes just one week after two North Atlantic right whales were seen entangled in fishing gear southeast of ...

Three North Atlantic right whales have been spotted entangled in fishing gear off the coast of the U.S. just this month, ...

We owe it to the right whale — and to so many other species — to reconstruct what our own history has taken from them.