The first of 13 U.S. ships due to be scrapped in Britain sailed into port, to cries of protest from environmentalists who have won a first round in a campaign to stop their dismantling.

Nearly one in three sea turtles may be killed by fishing each year, suggests a new global study. Full Story

A judge ordered a company this week not to begin breaking up four decrepit and polluted U.S. ships at a British port until the end of hearings next month on the plans.

A lonely killer whale on Canada’s Pacific coast will have to wait until spring for a family reunion, but the money to pay for it is now in place, officials said.

For the fifth consecutive year the IWDG are monitoring an inshore movement of fin whales in September-November period in West Cork, which once again is producing some world- class whale watching. This is an opportunity both whale watchers and wildlife en

Norwegian newspaper, Fiskeribladet reported that in 2003, 34 boats participated in a hunt of 647 whales, 13 more animals than last year. Full

Commercial whaling half a century ago might have triggered the collapse of one of Earth’s richest ocean ecosystems, setting in motion a chain reaction that has decimated sea mammals and kelp forests in the North Pacific and Bering Sea, according to a scie

Scientists were beginning a study of a dead right whale’s final movements Wednesday after determining it died from a lethal ship strike in the Bay of Fundy.

The extraordinary all-white whale making its way up the Great Barrier Reef on Australia’s east coast is apparently none the worse for bashing into a boat last month.