Marine biologists from Germany and Norway reviewed more than 100 scientific studies and found that marine heat waves (MHWs) ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the National Marine Fisheries Service today to protect the cusk fish under the Endangered Species Act. The cusk is a long-lived ...

The ecology of the North Atlantic is constantly changing. Sometimes it changes abruptly. Extreme events are one driver of such sudden changes. A team of researchers has discovered that a single, large ...

HIGHLANDS, N.J. (WFXR) – “There she is, there she is, Fish on, fish on,” shouted Chuck Manny as a huge striped bass began to peel line off a reel off the coast of northern New Jersey. Manny is an ...

The first North Atlantic right whale calf of the season has been spotted in Cape Cod Bay. Cape Cod Bay is a vital feeding area for right whales, with scientists having documented at least 98 ...

CEC report exposes U.S. shortcomings in enforcing laws to protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales from ...

For the first time since 1999, New York's list of endangered and threatened species has been updated, bringing state protection to a migratory shore bird, a bat and a prehistoric fish, which can all ...

BOSTON — A North Atlantic right whale sighted off Georgia with a serious entanglement is facing uncertain survival, experts say, highlighting the ongoing threats facing this critically endangered ...