BOSTON - About 75 North Atlantic right whales, representing about 20% of the critically endangered species' population ...

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

If any of the whales become entangled in Maine gear, it could worsen regulations lobstermen say are already too strict.

The rule would have limited boats as small as 35 feet to 10 knots when North Atlantic right whales were migrating through ...

NASSAU COUNTY, FLORIDA, Fla. — The right whale "Grand Teton" was seen with a newborn calf off Amelia Island on Thursday.

Southern right whales can live to be more than 130 years old — which is decades longer than previously thought, according to ...

NOAA proposed a speed change to certain water vessels in order to aid the critically endangered right whale population.

Biologists from the New England Aquarium say 20 percent of all the right whales in the world are together, right now, off the ...

A proposal to lower speed limits on waterways — boat strikes kill a large number of the whales — was dropped in face of next administration.

A group of about 75 endangered North Atlantic right whales was spotted off the western edge of Jeffreys Ledge. That's about ...

The federal government is withdrawing a proposal that would require more ships to slow down in East Coast waters to try to ...