Judge hears case involving Navy, rare right whales

Environmentalists asked a federal judge Thursday to decide whether the Navy must halt plans to build a $100 million offshore training range because of potential threats to endangered right whales.

Boaters warned of whales in San Francisco Bay

At least one gray whale is still hanging around San Francisco Bay a day after a mother and her calf were first spotted near the Golden Gate Bridge.

Killer whales denied anti-slavery protection

Unplanned 9/11 analysis links noise, whale stress

An ocean experiment that was accidentally conducted amid the shipping silence after Sept. 11 has shown the first link between underwater noise and stress in whales, researchers reported Wednesday.

Groups sue over Navy sonar use off Northwest coast

Conservationists and Native American tribes are suing over the Navy's expanded use of sonar in training exercises off the Washington, Oregon and California coasts, saying the noise can harass and kill whales and other marine life.

33 whales shot in New Zealand after rescues failed

Conservation staff in New Zealand have put down 33 stranded whales after several attempts to refloat them failed.

Coast Guard reminds ships to slow for right whales

Larger vessels sailing along the Atlantic Seaboard are being reminded to slow down for right whales.

Russia scrambles to save some 100 trapped whales

Russian agencies are scrambling to some 100 beluga whales — an endangered species — that are trapped among large chunks of polar ice floating in the frigid Bering Sea.

Judge upholds Cook Inlet belugas as endangered

Alaska's Cook Inlet beluga whales were correctly listed as endangered, a federal judge ruled Monday, rejecting a state lawsuit that claimed the listing will hurt economic development.

Last of 91 whales stranded in Australia, NZ dies

Rescuers have been unable to save the last surviving sperm whale from separate mass-strandings in Australia and New Zealand that have seen 91 whales die since the weekend.

Rescue of last stranded Australian whale halted

Worsening weather has forced Australian authorities to postpone efforts to save the last surviving whale in a mass stranding that has killed 25 of the creatures.

PETA lawsuit seeks to expand animal rights

A federal court is being asked to grant constitutional rights to five killer whales who perform at marine parks — an unprecedented and perhaps quixotic legal action that is nonetheless likely to stoke an ongoing, intense debate at America's law schools over expansion of animal rights.

Third killer whale found dead in Alaska river

A third killer whale that swam up Alaska's Nushagak River has been found dead.

Necropsies show no obvious causes for whale deaths

Necropsies on two killer whales that died after spending weeks in an Alaska river have provided no obvious reasons for why the animals died.

Final whale stranded off FL Keys goes to SeaWorld

The final whale that was stranded in May off the Florida Keys has arrived in Orlando.

Last stranded whales won't be released into wild

The last of nearly two dozen pilot whales that became stranded off the Florida Keys will not be released back into the wild because it has developed scoliosis.

Scientists study gray whale stuck in Calif. river

Scientists on Wednesday tried to collect gas samples from the blowhole of a 45-foot gray whale stranded in the Klamath River in Northern California.

Scare tactics, calf can't get whale out of river

A wayward gray whale remained on California's Klamath River on Wednesday, even after its calf found its way back to sea and wildlife officials tried a scare tactic: blasting the sounds of its main predator, killer whales.

Killer whale sounds fail to urge gray whale to sea

A female gray whale remains stuck in a Northern California river despite scientists' efforts to nudge the 40-ton mammal seaward with unpleasant underwater sounds.

Pilot whale calf moved from Fla. Keys to Orlando

A pilot whale calf that stranded May 5 off the lower Florida Keys has recovered and is being transported from a Keys-based marine mammal rehabilitation facility to Orlando.

25 whales die after mass stranding in Scotland

Rescuers in Scotland say they have guided 44 pilot whales stranded in an estuary back to sea, but 25 other whales from the pod did not survive the incident and died.

Rescuers say 1 of Scottish loch whales has died

Rescue workers say 60 pilot whales that risked becoming beached on a Scottish island may have been accompanying a sick member of their pod.

Officials euthanize whale that stranded off Keys

Officials at a rehabilitation center have euthanized one of five surviving pilot whales that stranded last week off the lower Florida Keys.The Marine Mammal Conservancy in Key Largo said the young-adult male whale had difficulty breathing, was not responding to treatment and was suffering. A necropsy is planned.One other whale remains in critical condition. The other three are in stable but guarded condition.The center says it needs additional volunteers for the round-the-clock effort to help the animals. Rehabilitation efforts are expected to last at least two months. ___OnlineMarine Mammal Conservancy:

2 whales found stranded in Fla. Keys are released

Two pilot whales found stranded in the Florida Keys have been released.

5 stranded whales taken to Key Largo for treatment

Five surviving pilot whales of a mass stranding off the lower Florida Keys are now in a Key Largo rehabilitation center, where they'll receive long-term treatment.

To the editor: Almost 50 percent of mid-water herring vessels are no longer in the fishery. All of them are only part-time fishing businesses, as a large percentage of the fishing grounds have been closed to them for most of the year. Current herring quotas reflect a 40 percen …

21 May 2012 Last updated at 11:10 GMT The skipper of a sight-seeing boat in Orkney has been hailed for his bravery after jumping into the water to save a humpback whale. The boat carrying a group of wildlife-watchers came across the 40ft animal which had become entangled in dis …

Everybody, meet Iceberg. Iceberg looks and behaves like a lot of other killer whales, with one very big exception: Iceberg is entirely white. In fact, researchers say he's the only all-white, adult orca to ever be observed.  

Recent sightings of a gray whale and her infant calf swimming near Alcatraz and Sausalito in San Francisco Bay illuminated a likely repercussion of melting polar ice, scientists said. Gray whales normally mate in the tropical lagoons of Baja California in the winter, migrate n …

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) - Environmentalists asked a federal judge Thursday to decide whether the Navy must halt plans to build a $100 million offshore training range because of potential threats to endangered right whales.

I didn’t give much thought to shipping until I started doing my PhD on whales and dolphins. Food magically appeared onto store shelves out of thin air, where I bought it.

The Sea Shepard is still fighting the good fight. Not everyone agrees with their methods or their rational but this is one case where the ends may justify the means. This is an update on their efforts to thwart whaling this year.

Dolphins should be treated as non-human "persons", with their rights to life and liberty respected, scientists meeting in Canada have been told. Experts in philosophy, conservation and animal behaviour want support for a Declaration of Rights for Cetaceans. They believe dolph …

"Jonah’s story came first, and then there were rumors from the 19th century Yankee Whale Fishery — whaling ships leaving New York and New England ports for years on the open ocean. I’d like to believe in swallowings, but it’s tough.

Writing in the latest issue of "Nature," a trio of scientists — two of whom are associated with NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco's longtime advocacy for catch share fisheries — have proposed a similar "catch and trade" allocation policy to help bring to an end commer …

Japanese whalers and protesters clashed on Wednesday in the Southern Ocean, with activists saying three of their crew were injured by grappling hooks and a bamboo pole and Japan claiming the anti-whalers tried to cut ropes and tangle propellers.

There be Whales

Japan on Friday handed over to Australian authorities three anti-whaling activists held aboard a Japanese vessel after illegally boarding the ship to protest Japan's annual whale hunt in Atlantic waters.

THE Australian government says its priority is to make sure the three whaling activists who climbed on board a Japanese whaling security ship are being well cared for, Attorney-General Nicola Roxon said.

Wave Reviews!

I'm anticipating the surge every single day but alas nothing yet. I picked through some of the photos I think are pretty cool and depict a very vigorous surf.

The four-count indictment accuses Black of twice feeding killer whales in the marine sanctuary -- once in 2004 and again in 2005. The indictment also alleges she altered a video showing possible illegal contact with an endangered humpback whale during a whale-watching trip in  …

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said in a news release Saturday that it deployed one of the drones to intercept the Japanese factory ship Nisshin Maru about 800 kilometres off Western Australia's southwest coast.

An Uplifting Dolphin Story. Literally.

With a bit of advance prep you make shure to have a fun family time.

He spotted the geyserlike spray from its blow hole first. Biologist John Calambokidis was tracking humpback whales about 25 miles off Westport late last week when he saw what he presumed was an exhalation from a much bigger species, a fin whale. But the creature that surfaced …

Japan's whaling fleet has left port under heavy guard as it prepares to kill almost 1,000 whales in the Antarctic, where more clashes are expected with members of the Sea Shepherd marine conservation group. Three ships, led by the 720-tonne Yushin Maru and accompanied by a fis …

Report: " The distinctive, planet-encircling flows of the Southern Ocean have played a role in moderating global warming, but change is at hand with the water heating up, getting less salty, storing more carbon, and growing more acidic.

`The remains of an ancient animal found in Egyptian marble may help scientists solve a whale of an evolutionary puzzle.' -- The Week