Recent studies, including research published in Science, and the work of the World Sustainability Foundation and the Friend of the Sea programme, offer an in-depth view of the global risk and possible ...

A humpback whale briefly engulfed a kayaker off the coast of Chile in an incident caught on camera. Experts say it couldn't have swallowed him even if it wanted to.

An artificial intelligence (AI) tool has been developed to predict the habitat of endangered whales, helping to reduce deadly ...

A humpback whale briefly scooped a kayaker in Chile into its mouth in an incident straight out of the biblical book of Jonah.

And finally, she revealed that cruise ships have been known to hit whales: “I was on a ship cruising through Alaska when we struck a whale - a collision that left the whale draped over the ship ...

A new study has found an increase in large-whale deaths and injuries near HABs on the U.S. East and West Coasts, mainly due to ship strikes and entanglement in fishing gear. The authors propose ...

Over the weekend, a 38-foot-long female gray whale washed ashore at Dockweiler State Beach, prompting an outpouring of grief ...

Converted from a pelagic trawl boat, the factory ship first led a whaling expedition that lasted from 1991 to 1992. It was called a “moving processing factory” because the whales caught by ...

An initial assessment revealed that the whale was underweight and had an abnormal ... died from blunt-force trauma after being struck by a ship, which is what probably killed the last four whales ...

“Our large whale disentanglement team was scrambled and ... are chiefly threatened by entanglements in fishing gear as well as ship strikes and underwater noise, according to the National ...

UPDATE: This post has been updated with input from NOAA Fisheries regarding the likelihood that the whale had been struck by a ship. A 26-foot humpback whale that was found deceased and entangled ...