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

Research results show that the 10th annual season of Protecting Blue Whales and Blue Skies Program (BWBS) in 2024 reduced the ...

The study, published in March in the journal Nature Communications, calculates that in oceans across the globe, great whales ...

Great rivers of whale pee make a remarkable contribution to Earth's cycling of nutrients, a new study reveals. While their ...

South Georgia has been in the headlines after the world's largest iceberg ran aground off its coast amid concerns it could impact wildlife on the island.

They're living life on a different scale,” said Andrew Pershing ... were not included in the primary calculations of the new ...

Results show that the 10th annual season of the Protecting Blue Whales and Blue Skies Program (BWBS) in 2024 reduced the risk of deadly ship strikes to ...

The study focused on a handful of baleen species — namely, gray whales, humpback whales and right whales — which display ...

When whales migrate from their cold feeding grounds to warmer breeding waters, they carry tons of nutrients in their urine.

Now we can add whale urine to that list, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Communications. “Lots of people think of plants as the lungs of the planet, taking in carbon dioxide, and ...

When the Palisades fire raged and winds whipped ash and debris into the Pacific Ocean, scientists with the National Oceanic ...

Baleen whales undertake some of the longest migrations of any mammal, traveling thousands of miles between nutrient-rich feeding grounds and tropical breeding areas. Southern Hemisphere humpback ...