The giant animals migrate, and usually arrive in Cape Cod Bay off Massachusetts early in the winter and stay until around the middle of May. The whale’s population fell by about 25% from 2010 to ...

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

Latest spate of whale deaths 'unprecedented,' but vessel strikes, entanglements are chief concern Since December, at least eight dead whales have washed ashore in Massachusetts, and five more have ...

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

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

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

NOAA has withdrawn vessel speed rule changes aimed at strengthening protections for North Atlantic right whales, drawing ...

The windmills are driving the whales crazy, obviously,” the president-elect said during a recent news conference.

President Trump will halt new federal leases for wind energy, the White House confirmed Monday, a blow to Massachusetts’ ...

Despite its best efforts, NMFS does not have sufficient time to finalize this regulation in this Administration due to the ...

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

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