As new regulations target traditional lobster fishing gear, Maine lobstermen are exploring alternative gear that would ...

Conservation groups are intervening in a case they say could have implications for current speed rules that are intended to ...

The Slow Zone is in effect due to the presence of the endangered North Atlantic right whale, with only around 370 remaining. North Atlantic right whales were detected near Ocean City, Maryland, ...

The New England Better Newspaper Competition was for association members' work published from Aug. 1, 2023, to July 31, 2024.

While researchers along the East Coast have been documenting an “unusual whale mortality event” since 2016, there is a lot of ...

An endangered North Atlantic right whale, swimming in the Gulf off the Florida coast, was captured on video by SeaTrek ...

A new study out of the University of Vermont quantifies just how much migrating female whales do to sustain ocean ecosystems.

Researchers are listening for right whales off the coast of Massachusetts with the help of two new high-tech buoys.

Now, a trio of conservation groups – Defenders of Wildlife, Whale and Dolphin Conservation, the Conservation Law Foundation, ...