Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the humpback whale population has recovered extensively over the past half a century.

After two years of debate and 90,000 public comments, NOAA withdrew a contentious boat speed rule aimed at Atlantic right ...

The U.S. government recently dropped a proposed rule aimed at protecting the endangered North Atlantic right whale, a ...

NOAA has proposed new speed restrictions for boats across the East Coast that Gov. Maura Healey hopes will be amended.

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

NOAA Fisheries revealed on Wednesday the agency will not be moving forward with proposed vessel speed restrictions aimed at ...

Both Canada's environment minister and Cabinet acted reasonably in approving the expansion of a shipping terminal near ...

Ishida, 46, said he was hit by a strong odor ... such as being able to process whale carcasses indoors. “No other whaling ship in the world is as large and state-of-the-art as this one ...

NOAA had assessed the rule using data and found that 12 whales were hit in the 10 years before before ... which it collects through its own app called Ship Speed Watch. Of those vessels, 84% ...

The federal government is withdrawing a proposal that would require more ships to slow down in East Coast waters to try to ...

The whale was struck and killed by a cruise ship near Port Hardy, not far from Telegraph Cove, but the body became hung up on the ship's bulbous bow and was pushed all the way to Vancouver.