The organization's Marine Animal Rescue and Response Team was busier in the first nine months of 2024 than all of 2023, ...

When the ship’s crew cut into Crook Jaw, they found neither Devil nor mermaid inside, just heaps of yellow seaweed. As it ...

The New Bedford Whaling Museum, which sees more than 80,000 visitors a year, is planning to expand its campus with a new ...

With the Biden administration’s time in office coming to an end, regulators at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Democrat Maura Healey says slowing vessels to 10 knots near Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard would create chaos without providing effective whale protection. Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is ...

He specifically pointed to the Massachusetts area, and said, “the windmills are driving the whales crazy, obviously.” Trump vowed to halt offshore wind development. His comments have drawn mixed ...

WATERFRONT RIGHT NOW. JOHN. AND, YOU KNOW, OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS, THERE HAVE BEEN SOME REALLY SAD IMAGES OF DEAD WHALES WASHING ASHORE HERE IN MASSACHUSETTS AND UP AND DOWN THE EAST COAST.

President-elect Donald Trump says wind farms off the Massachusetts coast are “driving the whales crazy,” and his administration will look to enact a policy that halts the development of the ...

Southern right whales have lifespans that reach well past 100 years, and 10% may live past 130 years, according to our new research published in the journal Science Advances. Some of these whales ...

NANTUCKET, Mass. – Two endangered North Atlantic right whales have been spotted off Massachusetts with entanglements that could potentially be life-threatening to the massive mammals.