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.

THE STRING of recent whale deaths in New England’s waters (“Fishing method eyed in mammals’ deaths,” City & Region, Oct. 4) is a matter of concern. It is frightening that these deaths are possibly the result of a reckless and greedy fishing activity calle

Britain gave the green light yesterday to a controversial scheme in which a fleet of 13 decrepit and contaminated former U.S. Navy supply ships will cross the Atlantic to a scrapyard in northern England.

Australian environmental officials were investigating last week the mutilation of one of nine sperm whales washed up on a remote beach after the jaw of one of them was hacked off with a chainsaw and axe.

A lone killer whale off Canada’s Pacific coast will be relocated back to U.S. waters, where it is hoped he will join his family, Canadian officials decided this week.

Many unexplained strandings and deaths of marine mammals could be caused by soundwaves from underwater military sonar equipment, zoologists believe. Full Story

Since the recent capture of a wild orca, the first of its kind in Russian waters, disturbing information has emerged about the death of a young animal during the capture activities.

The 2nd leg of this project has just been conducted in West Cork’s waters between Sept. 27th – Oct. 3rd, and we can confirm that the inshore movement of large rorquals is underway.