NOAA aims to undo vessel-speed regulation that protects endangered North Atlantic right whales, instead looking at real-time ...

As North Atlantic right whales return to Cape Cod Bay, NOAA wants public input on possible changes to vessel speed rules that have protected them.

Researchers with the Center for Coastal Studies spotted the season's first right whales and their calves in Cape Cod Bay.

Since 2008, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, has imposed speed restrictions on ships 65 feet and longer when they pass through areas that North Atlantic right whales ...

Four decades after the global whaling ban, some whale species are rebounding, but ship strikes and bycatch still threaten their recovery.

Southern right whales have distinctive white and gray patches of thickened skin on their heads known as callosities. Because ...

Researchers spotted the season's first North Atlantic right whale​ mothers and calves in Cape Cod Bay.

The Trump administration is looking into rolling back an East Coast boat speed rule that whale advocates say would lead to more deadly ship strikes. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

Speed restrictions on large boats that could strike and kill endangered North Atlantic right whales could be lifted under a ...

Director of science at the Canadian Whale Institute Moira Brown says speed limits for ships are not enough to prevent ...

The Trump administration is considering deregulating and modifying a vessel speed rule meant to protect North Atlantic right ...