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North Atlantic orcas are threatened by persistent organic pollutants that build up in their favorite prey, marine mammals. Photo by Nitesh Jain / Unsplash

North Atlantic orcas reveal the troubling persistence of toxic ocean pollutants

Kristel Tjandra 27 Nov 2023
A great white shark cruises around the water's surface in southern Australia.

Lethal or not? Australia’s beaches are a crucible for shark control methods

Nick Rodway 16 Nov 2023
A sperm whale calf swims near the surface in waters off Dominica.

Dominica set to open world’s first reserve centered around sperm whales

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 Nov 2023
A North Atlantic right whale mother with calf.

As population ‘flattens,’ North Atlantic right whales remain at risk

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Oct 2023
Pink river dolphins.

Fishing ban extension raises hopes for iconic Amazon pink river dolphin

Pérola de Farias Pedro 16 Oct 2023
By Aqqa Rosing-Asvid - Visit Greenland - File:Finhval.jpg, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47954017. Image courtesy of Aqqa Rosing-Asvid via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

Iceland’s whaling paradox (commentary)

Micah Garen 13 Oct 2023
Two fin whales hunted in Iceland in 2009.

International outcry as Iceland lifts ban on what could be last whale hunt

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 1 Sep 2023
A humpback whale

Expected ship traffic to LNG Canada port could see whale deaths also rise

Spoorthy Raman 18 Aug 2023
Close up of a green turtle (Chelonia mydas) in clear, aquamarine-tinged water with corals, its shell just meeting its own rippling reflection on the surface . Image by Jim Frodel via Flickr (CC BY-2.0)

Study reveals turtles’ millennia-old food affair with North African seagrass

Sean Mowbray 2 Aug 2023

AI unlocks secrets of Amazon river dolphins’ behavior, no tagging required

Liz Kimbrough 1 Aug 2023
A pod of sperm whales.

Keep it down: U.N. report lists ways to reduce ocean noise pollution

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 6 Jul 2023

Fishing, dams and dredging close in on Peru’s river dolphins, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 5 Jul 2023
The harpoon or catcher ship Hvalur 8 arrives at the whaling station in Hvalfjörður, West Iceland. Two fin whales are tied to the starboard side of the ship. Image by Arne Feuerhahn / Hard to Port.

‘No future’: Iceland cancels whale hunt over animal welfare concerns

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Jun 2023

Expedition catches Amazon river dolphins to help save this iconic pink species

Kevin Damasio 9 Jun 2023

U.S. says Mexico failed to uphold international treaty protecting vaquita porpoise

Maxwell Radwin 30 May 2023
A bowhead mother and calf in the Arctic Ocean.

Melting Arctic sea ice is changing bowhead whale migrations, study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 May 2023
North Pacific right whales south of Kodiak Island, Alaska, 2021. Image captured by scientists working under NOAA permit 20465.

How do you study one of the world’s rarest whales?

Dana Wright 25 Apr 2023
Okinawan protester. Image by Richard Atrero de Guzman/NurPhoto via Getty Images

At the United Nations, Indigenous Ryukyuans say it’s time for U.S. military to leave Okinawa

Joseph Lee 21 Apr 2023

Top French court orders closure of fisheries amid mass dolphin deaths

Juliette Portala 14 Apr 2023

Scientists and fishers team up to protect Bolivian river dolphin

Rocío Lloret 12 Apr 2023
A Baird's tapir walking at night through her natural habitat.

Rewilding animals could be key for climate: Report

Liz Kimbrough 30 Mar 2023

New MPA Tic-Toc Golfo Corcovado a safe haven for blue whales in Chile

Michelle Carrere 21 Mar 2023
Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus).

Climate change is exacerbating human-wildlife conflict, but solutions await: Study

Tim Vernimmen 3 Mar 2023
beach

Avian flu hits Peru, killing thousands of sea birds and infecting some marine mammals

Tim Vernimmen 16 Feb 2023

Recent seismic activity in Indian Ocean likely led pilot whales to beach on Sri Lanka shores

Hassaan Shazuli 15 Feb 2023
A pod of humpback whales.

Potential impact on whales overlooked as deep-sea mining looks set to start, experts say

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 Feb 2023
An Irrawaddy dolphin.

Banned but abundant, gillnets pose main threat to Bangladesh’s river dolphins

Abu Siddique 26 Jan 2023
North Atlantic right whale mother and calf.

U.S. refuses calls for immediate protection of North Atlantic right whales

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Jan 2023

Mexico dismantles illegal fishing cartels killing off rare vaquita porpoise

Maxwell Radwin 5 Jan 2023

Unsustainable fishing to be banned in Irrawaddy dolphin’s Bornean sanctuary

Basten Gokkon 22 Dec 2022
Illustration of a Stellar's sea cow.

Extinct sea cow’s underwater engineering legacy lives on today, study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Dec 2022
A dead dolphin washed up.

Black Sea dolphin deaths prompt ecocide allegations against Russia

Elizabeth Fitt 16 Dec 2022

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