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

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

Massachusetts politicians were fine with the economic costs of protecting endangered species – but only when it meant ...

The Biden Administration has withdrawn a proposed rule that would have required more ships to slow down off the Atlantic ...

The proposed rules would have slowed more ships to prevent collisions with endangered North Atlantic right whales.

The move in the waning days of the Biden administration will leave the endangered North Atlantic right whale vulnerable to ...

NOAA has withdrawn vessel speed rule changes aimed at strengthening protections for North Atlantic right whales, drawing ...

Federal officials have withdrawn a proposed slow zone for ferries, ships and large boats along the U.S. East Coast, after ...

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 ...

YOU SEE WHAT’S HAPPENING UP IN THE MASSACHUSETTS AREA WITH THE WHALES ... HE SAYS THERE’S BEEN AN UPTICK IN WHALE DEATHS ALONG THE EAST COAST. BUT HE SAYS, ALONG WITH MANY SCIENTISTS, THAT ...

Last year proved “unprecedented” for strandings in Massachusetts, but experts say the development of energy sources isn’t the leading cause. Whale and Dolphin Conservation, a Plymouth-based ...