"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 ...

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

The sighting comes just one week after two North Atlantic right whales ― a young male and an adolescent female ― were seen ...

One of the critically endangered North Atlantic right whales is expected to die after becoming entangled in fishing gear near ...

A survey team said a thick rope was located over one whale’s head and back, which could cause its eventual death.

The current population of the North Atlantic right whale stands at less than 400 as the species has grown increasingly ...

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

Disentangling the whales south of Nantucket depends on locating them and conditions at sea. Cape rescuers were not ...

The whales were seen by a NOAA Fisheries aerial team on Dec. 9 about 50 miles southeast of Nantucket, NOAA said in a social ...

Two North Atlantic right whales were seen entangled in fishing gear and one has injuries so severe, a federal agency thinks ...