From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by producer Aynsley O’Neill with Amy Warren, the scientific program officer at the New England ...

The North Atlantic right whale calving season saw 23 births, more than double the previous year. Despite the recent increase in births, the total population remains critically low at around 380 ...

Since March, the world has watched live as a humpback whale lay stranded on a sandbank in German waters, far from the North Sea. The stranded humpback whale was found in poor health, tangled in ...

SAN FRANCISCO—“Whale, 12 o’clock!” Kathi George called out from the bow of a yacht last week. Then, as if to caution the whale, she added: “Ferry! Be careful.” Migrating gray whales and ships are on a ...

Scientists have uncovered an astonishing new chapter in humpback whale migration: two whales were found to have traveled between breeding grounds in Australia and Brazil, crossing more than 14,000 ...

BERLIN (AP) — A humpback whale found dead this week off a Danish island has been identified as the animal released two weeks ago in a spectacular and controversial rescue effort after repeatedly ...

Timmy, the young humpback whale who was stranded for weeks in shallow waters, has been found dead just off Denmark’s coast, according to the Danish Environmental Protection Agency, just weeks after a ...

OAK HARBOR, Wash. — A 19th gray whale has died in Washington waters this year, a record that points to threats to the population. The whale was reported floating on the west side of Whidbey Island on ...

The whale appeared to be unharmed by the collision, which was captured on video. By John S.W. MacDonald A personal watercraft struck an adult gray whale that had just breached off Vancouver, British ...

The beer, the cigarette, the Metallica song, the Singapore cane — The Sandman had one of the most indelible presentations in modern pro-wrestling history. In the same way that Pedro Morales was the ...

Kerry Breen is a news editor at CBSNews.com. A graduate of New York University's Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism, she previously worked at NBC News' TODAY Digital. She covers current events, ...

A fin whale stranded on a Samish Island beach near Bellingham died Tuesday morning, bringing Washington state’s whale death toll to 18 so far this year, researchers said. The male is the first fin ...