Japan said Monday it has caught 59 whales — one short of the maximum allowed by international guidelines — under a research program that critics say is a cover for commercial whaling
Scientists are grasping for answers to explain why southern resident killer whales — a group of fish eaters that prefers chinook salmon — have also been observed toying with harbour porpoises...
The theme for the October 2009 monthly underwater photo contest is "REEF SCENICS". The prize for October is an Olympus Stylus Tough 8000 waterproof camera (value $350)
The federal government is considering taking the humpback whale off the endangered species list in response to data showing the population of the massive marine mammal has been steadily growing in...
Iceland's fin whaling company said on Friday it plans a huge export of about 1,500 tonnes of whale meat, mainly to Japan, after wrapping up its hunting season for this year
When a whale dies, it sinks to the seafloor and becomes food for an entire ecosystem. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have discovered previously unknown species that feed only...
Conservation geneticists who study sea turtles have a new tool to help track this highly migratory and endangered group of marine animals: DNA barcodes.
Killer whales raise their voices to be heard over boat noise, and the effort may be wearing the whales out as they try to find food amid dwindling numbers of salmon, new research says
As underwater photographers, we travel far and wide for the privilege of unique encounters with marine life. When the encounters and conditions all come together, we sometimes even have the...
Marine conservationist Carl Safina reports some good news amid all of the negative reports we are constantly bombarded with about marine health and species decline
In the whale-watching world in St Lucia, permit holder and researcher Danie Bennett gives names to humpbacks with specific markings, so scientists along the migratory route can keep track of...
Scientists are warning that a new form of unregulated whaling has emerged along the coastlines of Japan and South Korea, where the commercial sale of whales killed as fisheries "bycatch" is...
An international team of researchers is surveying the Mid-Atlantic Ridge halfway between Iceland and the Azores to determine its biodiversity and perhaps discover new species and clues to deep-sea...
Australian authorities have warned the public to stay away from a rare white humpback whale named Migaloo that has made an appearance off the east coast
The US chair of the International Whaling Commission meeting in Portugal postponed a vote on the contentious issue until a special meeting later this year
Experts from the Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have for the first time positively identified the voice of a singing blue whale about 70 miles off the Long Island...
A team of scientists from Oregon State University and the NOAA has documented the presence of endangered North Atlantic right whales in an area they were thought to be extinct
Scientists have documented the first known migration of blue whales from the coast of California to areas off British Columbia and the Gulf of Alaska since the end of commercial whaling in 1965
Indonesia has opened Southeast Asia's largest marine park in the Savu Sea, a migration route for almost half the world's whale species and home to vast tracts of rare coral, the country's fisheries...
Having just come back from Socorro where we were able to get in the water with humpbacks (albeit the encounters were limited), this video really caught my attention
The first of our DPG underwater photography & video expeditions for 2009 was to the Revillagigedos Archipelago, more commonly called Socorro, known for its large resident groups of friendly giant...
Marine scientists and conservationists say using rope that sinks will make the whales less prone to getting snagged as they lumber through the Gulf of Maine each spring and summer
WCS researchers have discovered a stronghold for one of the world’s rarest freshwater dolphins, the Irrawaddy, deep in the waterlogged jungles of Bangladesh. The scientists counted nearly 6,000 of...
Seeking an end to the continuing slaughter of false killer whales in the waters of Hawai‘i, Earthjustice, representing a coalition of conservation groups, filed suit in federal court in Honolulu...
In Part 2 of Rick Morris's short film series about the Gulf of Maine Area Program of the Census of Marine Life we meet some of the researchers and get introduced to the cool tech toys of the trade
The United States and five other nations have called on Iceland's new government to drop a plan to step up whale hunts that whalers say would create jobs in the shattered economy
The remarkable journey of a green turtle from Indonesia into Australian waters is helping conservationists to track the migratory route of this species
Last week, Sarah Palin announced the state of Alaska will sue to strike down Endangered Species Act protection for the imperiled Cook Inlet beluga whale
More than 40 sperm whales have died after a pod of about 50 became stranded off southern Australia, an official said Friday as rescuers struggled to save the survivors
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva today signed a federal decree establishing the Brazilian Whale and Dolphin Sanctuary, reinforcing protection for all cetacean species in Brazilian...
Using a trained dog to sniff for poop and petri dishes attached to long poles, scientists are analyzing killer whales' scat and breath samples in the hopes of solving the mystery of Puget Sound's...
A research project led by Michel Andre, director of the Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics at the UPC (Universitat Politucnica de Catalunya) has developed the world's first portable system for...
Norway on Thursday authorized its whalers to harpoon 885 minke whales in 2009, a quota sharply down from previous years in what animal rights activists saw as a sign of consumers' growing...
A critical problem this time of year, is when pregnant females cruise south from the cold waters off Canada and New England to the warm nursery off the southeastern U.S. seaboard. It's a journey of...
Yesterday the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of the US Navy, allowing them to continue the use of long-range sonar training exercises off the coast of California, completely disregarding the harm...
This year's BBC Wildlife Photographer of The Year Competition was a boon for underwater photographers. Brian Skerry nabs the top prize in the Underwater World category
The humpback whale, nearly hunted into history four decades ago, is now on the "road to recovery" and is no longer considered at high risk of extinction, an environmental group said Tuesday.
Marinelife, the UK based marine conservation charity, has undertaken a scientific survey for cetaceans in the waters north of Scotland to and around Iceland during a cruise aboard the Marco Polo as...
After nearly three hours of painstaking effort, Ledwell releases the last piece of rope that had snarled the whale and the majestic beast slowly swims away.
Scientists have reported a surge in the number of dead whales, dolphins and porpoises washing up on Cornish shores after lethal encounters with nets and other fishing gear
In an era when we can track the lineage of humanity using DNA and monitor deforestation from space, you might think scientists would have come up with a more sophisticated way of counting whales...
Japan defended its practice of 'scientific' whale hunting at the annual International Whaling Commission meeting on Wednesday, insisting it had yielded important scientific results
About a third of all types of fish and other marine life have been wrongly named by scientists, complicating efforts to conserve what could be a million marine species, experts said
Chile declared a permanent ban on whaling in its waters on Monday, as conservation groups feared an International Whaling Commission meeting it is hosting will fail to halt the world's top whaler...
Endangered migratory whales will be faced with shrinking crucial Antarctic foraging zones which will contain less food and will be further away, a new analysis of the impacts of climate change on...
The United States called on Tuesday for a review of international law to regulate the killing of whales for scientific research in an apparent attempt to plug a loophole exploited by Japan, which...
New evidence that chemical contaminants are finding their way into the deep-sea food web has been found in deep-sea squids and octopods, including the strange-looking "vampire squid"
A new conservation short film, "Whale Wisdom - A Mother Humpback's View" has just been released by Shawn Heinrichs, an award winning independent filmmaker. The film has been produced in English and...
The United States on Tuesday urged Iceland and Norway to cease exporting whale meat to Japan, which they have resumed for the first time since the early 1990s despite a United Nations ban
Australia will lead the way in transforming the International Whaling Commission from an organisation that counts how many whales are killed to one focusing on research and conservation.
Imagine someone found your camera on the bottom of the ocean or at a resort and helped you reclaim it by sharing that once in a lifetime shot of a Whaleshark surounded by a school of Mantas?
Greenpeace environmental campaigners on Wednesday handed a box of meat they allege was stolen by Japanese whalers over to Tokyo prosecutors to aid an official investigation into the case
When I was told that I had won the 1st Place in the a Wide-angle category of the Our World Underwater I couldn't be happier, because the prize was a trip to Revillagigedo (Socorro). I had visited...
Territorial government officials support a measure to ban fossil-fuel based plastic shopping bags from been distributed to customers by retail stores and markets in American Samoa.
A dolphin guided two stranded whales to safety after human attempts to keep the animals off a New Zealand beach failed, a conservation official said on Wednesday
There are less than 10 days left in the Japanese whaling season, and Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's ship, the Steve Irwin, has reached the limit of its fuel reserves
We are excited to announce a very special trip for 2009 to the Revillagigedos Archipelago, more commonly called Socorro. These islands have been compared to the Galapagos and Cocos because of the...
Like many northerners who head south to warmer climates for the winter, many Northern right whales also head south in November and stay into April. Their destination is the only known calving...
There will be blood, and oil will be to blame. Scotland's seas and the wildlife they harbour are facing one of the biggest threats they have ever encountered.
board the M/Y Steve Irwin Southern Oceans ---The crew on the Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin engaged in a confrontation with the Japanese factory ship Nisshin Maru this morning between 0800 and 1000...
Japan, in a feud with Western nations about whaling, said on Friday it will meet with 12 developing states in a bid to boost its clout in the deadlocked International Whaling Commission
A militant environmental group on Tuesday said it had planted tracking devices on Japanese whaling ships to ensure they could always find the harpoon boats in the vast Southern Ocean
We lost one of the true pioneers in diving Ralph White. He was an innovator, very experienced and a leader. White combined his love for adventure and cinematography.
As a service to the long-term sustainability of both fish stocks and fishing communities, WWF has established an online resource providing up-to-date information on bycatch (the capture of...
One cigarette lighter, a toothbrush, a toy robot and a tampon applicator. The list of plastic items recovered from the stomach of a Laysan albatross chick that died on a remote Pacific island reads...
Norway has set a commercial whaling quota of 1,052 minke whales in 2008, unchanged from last year, drawing criticism from environmental groups pressuring Oslo to join the international community...
For the second time in less than a week, a federal court has found that a Navy anti-submarine training program threatens to subject whales and other sea creatures to harmful blasts of sonar and...
Captain Paul Watson and his crew of international volunteers are anxious to refuel, re-supply and complete repairs as soon as possible in order to return to the Southern Oceans
THE EFFECT of seismic exploration on Australia's best-known blue whale feeding ground is set to intensify, just as signs emerge that the endangered ocean giants are increasingly sick
Over the weekend the Costa Rican President Oscar Arias along with Environmental Minister Robert Dobles signed a decree that would protect whales and dolphins
Environmental group Greenpeace said on Saturday its anti-whaling ship, which has been harassing Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean, had saved an estimated 100 whales but was running low on fuel...
Reflecting the global dive industry trend towards more environmentally aware dive practices, Asia Dive Expo 2008 (ADEX) will this year turn its focus squarely towards eco-friendly diving
To understand how orcas, also known as killer whales, moved from being feared sea creatures to celebrated marine-park performers, it helps to look back at the history of orca capture, which began...
The fight over how humans should, and should not, interact with whales has moved from the waters off Antarctica, where environmental campaigners have been harassing Japanese whalers, to the White...
Greenpeace conservation activists say they have disrupted the Japanese whale hunt near Antarctica's coast by chasing a factory ship out of the whaling zone
Police have broken an illegal whale poaching racket, confiscating more than 50 tonnes of Minke meat in the largest seizure of its kind in South Korea, an official said Saturday
A WORLD expert on the Law of the Sea and the International Court of Justice, the Cambridge law faculty chair James Crawford, has been drafted by the Federal Government to tackle Japanese whale hunting
Environmental groups are condemning a government plan to open sea floor off the northwest coast of Alaska to petroleum leases, saying the decision was based on incomplete information and seriously...
The Japanese government has confirmed a rumour first reported at the Greenpeace weblog, that they've abandoned plans to kill humpback whales in the Southern Ocean this season
Ocean Optics, the London based specialists in underwater photography equipment, has announced a tie in with Action Underwater Studios, the Essex located movie tank
As humpback whales arrive in greater numbers for their winter breeding season, concerns rise commensurately about collisions with boats, including the Hawaii Superferry
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown lashed the "unacceptably cruel" whaling industry Friday, hours after Japan said it was dropping plans to hunt humpback whales
In the search for a missing evolutionary link to modern whales, scientists have come up with an unlikely land cousin -- a raccoon-sized creature with the body of a small deer
Jean-Michel Cousteau and the Mantello Brothers Join Forces To Protect Cetaceans with New IMAX 3D Theatre Documentary Film Dolphins And Whales 3D: Tribes of the Ocean
Some seals and dolphins can hold their breath underwater for a cheek-popping hour or more without passing out from lack of oxygen.
Definitely don't try this at home. Humans can't make it more...
This morning, in the grey swells of the Southern Ocean, a pirate ship will enter the waters of the Australian Antarctic Territory. It is a black ship, bearing a black pirate flag, the Jolly Roger....
Terri Irwin has granted the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society permission to rename its ship currently known as Robert Hunter in honor of her late husband, Steve Irwin. Captain Paul Watson, founder...
Although Chile's Administrative Fishery Law protects the Cetacean species in Chilean waters until 2025, environmentalist groups want all waterways in the country declared a whale sanctuary. The...
A female beluga whale that had fallen ill at an Atlanta aquarium, died early Saturday morning, aquarium officials said.
The female whale, Marina, died about 2 a.m. Saturday, said Jeff Swanagan,...
US lawmakers urged Japan to limit its whale hunt and use other, non-lethal means to conduct scientific research on whales.
Democratic and Republican senators sent a letter Thursday to Japan's...
Australians fear that the world's only known white humpback whale could be slaughtered as Japan's whaling fleet prepares to embark on its annual hunt in the Southern Ocean
Captain Paul Watson and Sea Shepherd staff members, International Director Jonny Vasic and Events & Media Relations Director Kristine Vasic departed for Melbourne November 5th after a successful...
THEY may sound like wops, thwops, grunts, moans and squeaks to the human ear, but they could actually be complex conversations between remarkable ocean mammals.
Thousands of hours of humpback...
A federal agency that regulates offshore oil drilling says Alaska's northern coast had unusual visitors this summer -- endangered humpback whales.
Humpback whales off Alaska generally are not seen...
The acting mayor of Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., is frustrated wildlife managers have allowed a group of beluga whales to get trapped in nearby lakes for the second winter in a row.
Merven Gruben told...
THE controversial practice of transferring tonnes of crude oil between tankers will not be covered by a UK Marine Bill, it emerged yesterday, sparking fury among environmentalists. It was expected...
Representatives from 15 Latin American non-governmental organizations specializing in cetacean research called last week upon Chileus parliament to protect whales against commercial and scientific...
PACKS of great white sharks are feeding off southeast Queensland, experts say.
The warmer weather and migrating whales brought the sharks north from their traditional cooler cruising waters in...
It began as a low, inquisitive bellow, then morphed into quasi-barks, growls and echoing calls. For the first time in 25 years, the "true song" of the humpback whale has serenaded...
Humpback whales from the South Pacific take different, winding routes to their summer feeding grounds in the Antarctic, often making several stops along the way, according to new research from the...
The endangered right whale is to get extra protection after a safe haven from shipping was set aside off Nova Scotia in Canada.
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) ratified a Canadian...
Young Puget Sound orcas have more potentially toxic flame-retardant chemicals in their bodies than their elders, adding to evidence that the controversial chemicals could be hurting the endangered...
The Australian government has launched an anti-whaling message aimed at Japanese children on video-sharing internet site YouTube.
In the video, which carries Japanese subtitles, Environment...
A Monroe man accused of speeding too close to two killer whales has become the first person cited under a San Juan County law intended to protect the endangered orcas from overzealous and...
A few miles beyond the Golden Gate Bridge, a wide diversity of aquatic plants and species coexist in an area under federal protection since 1981, when then President Jimmy Carter signed a bill...
Reef fish and other marine species can breathe easier with the introduction of a fishing ban around Apo Reef, the largest coral reef in the Philippines and the second largest contiguous reef in the...
New York really does have a rejuvenated diver scene these days, thanks in large part to OceanBlue Divers, the one year old dive club that boasts nearly 1,000 members, and the host of a lovely...
Two federal agencies raised concerns in 2005 about the Hawaii Superferry's potential impact on humpback whales and other marine mammals and recommended a "consultation" to examine the...
Marine biologists are trying to determine the cause of death of a humpback whale calf that washed up Sunday on a beach in San Mateo County.
The 27-foot female baleen humpback whale calf,...
Conservationists have fought long and hard battles to save species such as elephants, the rhino, the giant panda, dolphins and whales. Now marine scientists and conservationists face one of their...
Paul Watson on the Robert Hunter, which he will take to the Southern Ocean to try to stop Japanese whalers, who have added Australian humpbacks to their list. CALL him dangerous or call him...
An endangered species of whale that can dive as deep as a kilometre to feed is helping scientists determine how to protect an unusual marine ecosystem off Canada's East Coast.
Observations of...
It had been hoped the whale would find its way back to sea
A badly injured whale which became trapped in a sea loch off Lewis has died, rescuers have confirmed.
The northern bottle-nosed whale...
Robin Baird's research team members stare at the horizon for hours, searching for rarely seen beaked whales.
The small, gray marine mammals have been at the center of the dispute over the Navy's...
Tow boat crews wrapped a huge nylon sling around the tail of a dead blue whale drifting in the Santa Barbara Channel on Friday and started hauling their grim cargo toward a beach at Point Mugu....
THIS spring and summer, more than 100 dolphins, sea turtles, whales, rays - and even dugongs and sea lions - will be trapped in nets designed to protect NSW swimmers from sharks.
However,...
A 70-foot blue whale carcass washed up on the shore on the Ventura County beach in California.
The Ventura County beach is about 50km northwest of Los Angeles and washed up on shore on Friday...
11 million to 15 million-year-old fossil whale puts limit on origin of oily, buoyant bones in whales
Berkeley -- A fossilized whale skeleton excavated 20 years ago amid the stench and noise of a...
Nearly 100,000 or more gray whales once thrived in the Pacific Ocean, greatly outnumbering today's population, a new study suggests.
The sea giants, which can reach a length of 50 feet (15...
When determining the long-term effects on an animal of polychlorinated biphenyls, some species are easy to evaluate. They may be small, easy to capture, and have relatively short life spans. But...
Starving whales a warning sign of problems in the food chain.
Gray whales in the Pacific Ocean, long thought to have fully recovered from whaling, were once three to five times as plentiful as...
Orcas or killer whales may continue to suffer the effects of contamination with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) for the next 30 u" 60 years, despite 1970s-era regulations that have reduced overall...
This is the extraordinary animal that surely gave birth to a legend.
For it would have been hard to believe that the sight of such a bizarre creature could be anything less than either an...
Behind the sailor's lore of fearsome battles between sperm whale and giant squid lies a deep question of evolution: How did these leviathans develop the underwater sonar needed to chase and catch...
Anti-whaling campaigners called on Australian Prime Minister John Howard to press Japan to stop hunting whales in national waters, drawing a Japanese response not to get emotional.
In an open...
The beluga whales make a shrill sound as they stick their noses out of the water, watched by conservationist Michel Moisan. They are a rare sight this far south -- and the chemicals washing into...
United States appeals court has put on hold a lower court injunction blocking the US Navy from using a type of sonar that wildlife supporters say harms whales in exercises off the California coast....
For the first time, researchers have recorded uA…aˆ?megapclicksuA‚A? u" a series of clicks and buzzes from humpback whales apparently associated with nighttime feeding behaviors u" in and around...
Spain has asked authorities around the Mediterranean and adjoining seas for help in monitoring an infection which threatens a protected species of dolphin, warning it may become an epidemic....
"Whale Valley officials have informed the authorities that people from two diplomatic corps vehicles destroyed the fossil," the source told AFP after the destruction was discovered around...
Scientists and environment officials were keeping a close watch for around 30 killer whales Monday night following an oil spill that could threaten the habitat they've frequented for years.
At...
About 50 killer whales have swum through a diesel slick created when a barge overturned near Vancouver Island's famed orca rubbing beaches, a whale researcher said Tuesday.
Paul's Spong's Orca...
A Rhode Island man was arrested Wednesday at the Mystic Aquarium and Institute for Exploration after throwing liquid into a whale tank.
Paul Watkins, 54, of East Providence, R.I., was charged...
Scientists are hunting this summer for one of the most precariously positioned animals on the planet _ Pacific right whales.
The whales, once prized by commercial whalers, have been teetering on...
One of our concerned members, Edward Dorson, brought this issue to my attention this week, after he responded to an appeal recently made by underwater photographer Walt Stearns. Somehow the...
U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper has issued a preliminary injunction that bars the US Navy from using high-powered sonar off the coast of Southern California saying that such exercises...
OCEANA has captured the first images of "Seco de Palos", a seamount 35 miles from the coast of Murcia in Spain
The discovery was made during the project Oceana is undertaking in...
More than half of about 500 whales killed by Japan in Antarctic waters during the last southern summer were pregnant, the Humane Society International (HSI) charged on Tuesday.
The global arm of...
The Northern California Underwater Photographic Society (www.NCUPS.org), proudly presents a very special seminar with Bay Area artist and marine mammal conservationist Bryant Austin, creator of...
Honolulu - The US government wants to extend by five years its rules allowing the Navy to use a new low-frequency sonar, despite objections from environmentalists that the technology may harm...
A legal settlement announced Tuesday will let Maine lobstermen know early this fall whether they will be forced to spend thousands of dollars for new whale-safe gear and change their traditional...
Fears that whale shark numbers are in decline have been confirmed even though a large number of countries have ceased harvesting the world's largest fish.
"Because these animals migrate...
Drift netting is believed to be responsible for the stranding of a large basking shark found dead on a Kerry beach.
The three-metre long female shark - they grow to up to three times that...
Two rare True Beaked whales were found dead on the beach at Buffels Bay near Knysna, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said on Monday.
Knysna station commander Rein Hofmeyr said the NSRI...
A female gray whale labored up the coast, the bony ridge of a shoulder blade protruding from what should be the smooth, plump roundness of healthy blubber.
"That female looks a little...
In the cool oceans of Alaska, humpback whales work as a team to catch their mealu"by blowing a net of bubbles. The endangered mammals actually herd herring with a ring of bubbles, trapping them....
Noise pollution from a gas and oil project in the Russia Far East is the likely cause behind critically endangered western gray whales abandoning their only known feeding area.
The installation...
New Zealand's department of conservation said it had new evidence that the country's southern right whale population is on the verge of extinction, according to reports Wednesday in the newspaper...
Jam packed in this issue you'll find: Guadalupe Photography Workshop with Charles Hood,
Wild Photos 2007,
Antibes Film Festival,
Asian Diverus Ocean Odyssey Digital Shoot Out,
DivePhotoGuide...
"My exceptional encounter with Sailfish underwater was the most unexpected event in a 40-year wildlife photography career. It was an "awe-full" experience, exceeding my wildest expectations - the...
Record numbers of humpback whales are on their annual migration up Australia's east coast, including the rare white whale Migaloo, scientists say.
Migaloo, whose Aboriginal name means...
A possible predatory interaction between killer whales (Orcinus orca) and hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna sp.) was observed during April 1991 near Punta Cormorant, Galupagos Islands. Three killer whales...
Workers in the quiet Japanese fishing village of Wada carved up two whales on Thursday, signalling the start of the summer whaling season despite international protests.
Japan in May threatened...
Whales and dolphins from the Mediterranean are for the first time being regularly seen in northern Scottish waters.
Scientists say that the phenomenon may be the result of rising sea...
Earthwatch volunteers who joined the Black Sea Turtles of Baja expeditions in the late 90s can look back at all those long days of hauling uncooperative sea turtles aboard small boats to weigh and...
An ongoing count of endangered humpback whales - like the two that made a lengthy side trip into the Sacramento Delta recently - is revealing a comeback so convincing that marine scientists are...
Australia says Japan had a "dummy-spit" when it didn't get its own way at last week's International Whaling Commission in Alaska.
"It was a very bad conference for Japan,"...
Military exercises planned by Australia and the United States next month off the Australian coast could result in large-scale whale deaths or injuries, the International Whaling Commission said....
Two mixed-up humpback whales, milling around for days in an unfamiliar river delta, kept wildlife workers guessing Monday and seemed in no rush to return to the sea.
After entertaining hundreds of...
The fate of the great whales hung in the balance on Monday as officials from 75 nations opened talks amid pressure, notably from Japan, to reverse a ban on commercial hunting of the mammals.
As...
Marine specialists successfully administered antibiotics to the two humpback whales in the Delta on Saturday after hours of trying.
The mother whale received her third and final dose around 5 p.m....
Sing and attract females, or keep quiet and eat? It's a tricky dilemma for a male, to be sure, but one that humpback whales must wrestle with as they migrate to their summer feeding grounds. Males...
Hope dimmed Wednesday for two lost, wounded whales as scientists spotted the humpbacks wildly slapping their tails on the water in possible distress as they lingered far from their ocean home....
Whales, dolphins and porpoises are facing increasing threats from climate change, according to a new report published by WWF and the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) ahead of the 59th...
A wayward humpback leaps from the water at the Port of Sacramento early Saturday, giving Sacramento photographer Ken Cavalli the chance to shoot two frames of the exuberant cetacean. Rescuers...
Thousands of spectators watched Saturday as two wayward whales swam looping half-mile laps around the Port of Sacramento after declining earlier efforts to lure them into the Pacific Ocean....
Marine scientists trying to lure two injured whales out of a river prepared Friday for Plan B: Herding the animals by boat while banging pipes underwater.
In the meantime, a marine mammal rescue...
The recorded siren songs of humpback whales played from a Coast Guard cutter Thursday as biologists tried to lure an injured whale and her calf out of a shipping channel and back toward the Pacific...
The sperm whale is the largest of the toothed whales, with males growing up to 20 m in length. It also has the largest brain of any living animal, and it was a sperm whale that was pitted against...
In October 2006, after 20 years of compliance, Iceland began to violate the International Whaling Commission's global moratorium on whaling and gave only a one-day notice before killing a whale....
Researchers with environmental charity Earthwatch have voiced their fears for grey whales arriving malnourished in their breeding grounds off the Mexican coast.
The scientists are not clear...
New evidence has been produced showing that Italian fishermen are still using drift nets in the Mediterranean more than five years after they were outlawed in Europe. Drift nets were banned because...
When the killer whales of Washington State's Puget Sound began vanishing, a biologist had to get an earful from the U.S. Navy to pick up clues to the mystery (Washington map).
Using...
Researchers with the conservation group Earthwatch found that whales are arriving in their breeding grounds off the Mexican coast malnourished.
The same thing happened just after the 1997/8 El...
Illegal drift nets are catching whales and dolphins in the Mediterranean five years after they were banned, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has said. The use of drift...
Mating strategies are straightforward in bottlenose dolphins, or are they? Much of the work carried on male-female relationships in that species to date show that males tend to coerce females who...
It is one of the most remarkable journeys by any creature on the planet - and it is made by one of the biggest creatures known to science.
Researchers have shown that humpback whales travelling...
Five hundred tons of whale meat, part of the harvest from Japan's whaling operation in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, appears to have mysteriously disappeared. The likely explanation seems to...
Around 30 boats are licensed to take part in the hunt which can kill more than a thousand minke whales during a five month season starting on 1st April. Despite an international ban on commercial...
Tourism based on ecological ideals like whale watching and economical perspectives like whaling, as in the killing of whales, do not mix.
The largest animals to have ever lived on planet earth,...
Seven pilot whales that came ashore on the Galapagos Islands died Sunday, despite the efforts of rescuers who dug makeshift pools in the sand to keep them from dehydrating. Five other whales in the...
In the cold, dark abyss of the Pacific lurk thousands of aptly named jumbo squid (Dosidicus gigas), aggressive carnivores up to six feet long and 100 pounds nicknamed "red devils" by...
The last of seven surviving sperm whales stranded on Tasmania's west coast have been shepherded out to sea, ending a four-day rescue effort.
The two remaining whales were escorted out of...
Scientists have simulatenously tagged sperm whales and jumbo squid off Mexico's Pacific coast, allowing them to be tracked by satellite even as they dive to depths exceeding 3000 feet. Details of...
A possible predatory interaction between killer whales (Orcinus orca) and hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna sp.) was
observed during April 1991 near Punta Cormorant, Galupagos Islands. Three killer...
Anti-whaling nations New Zealand and Australia vowed Thursday to continue the fight to end Japan's annual whale hunts, warning that its plans to kill humpback whales off Antarctica in December...
The controversial annual hunt, which Japan says was carried out for research purposes, was meant to continue until the end of March.
But Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research said the Nisshin...
They said analysis carried out earlier this year on samples of pet food purchased near Tokyo revealed levels of both Antarctic minke whale and dolphin meat. "The fact that Japan is using whale...
Using a variety of new approaches, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego are forging a new understanding of the largest mammals on Earth. In one recently published study...
Secret sonar, used by the Royal Navy in a Nato exercise, has killed four whales, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.
A post-mortem on four Cuvier's beaked whales, stranded on Spain's Almeira...
Wildlife protection and ocean conservation groups yesterday sued the National Marine Fisheries Service for failing to protect three endangered whale species North Atlantic right whales, humpbacks,...
Scientists say rapidly-melting sea ice is partially to blame for a five-fold increase in killer whale sightings in some parts of the Canadian Arctic.
Jeff Higdon, a researcher with a joint...
How will climate change alter life for those dependent on Alaska's Bering Sea and Australia's Pacific Ocean for their food, traditions and incomes? How can marine protected areas safeguard...
Marine biologists in Italy say the sperm whale, once thought to have been nearly wiped from the region by drift nets, has returned to the Mediterranean...
In a modern update of "fish and chips," researchers are planning a worldwide effort to track the movement of sea creatures tagged with tiny electronic devices.
Following pilot testing...
An anti-whaling group's boat and a Japanese whale-spotting vessel collided twice in Antarctic waters today during clashes over a pod of whales, conservationists and Japanese officials said.
The...
Beneath the ocean, microphones listen around the clock for the mooing calls of endangered North Atlantic right whales in an eavesdropping experiment that could help save them from extinction....
Japanese whalers and a group of self-styled environmental "pirates" called a temporary truce today to save the lives of two activists who spent seven hours adrift in the freezing waters of the...
When Aucklander Troy Huston saw a pod of killer whales ripping stingrays apart and devouring them metres from where he was diving, he didn't feel scared - he felt privileged.
The 28-year-old was...
The Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, has initiated a study on underwater wealth, particularly coral reef and scheduled marine creatures such as whales and dugong dugon in the Gulf of Mannar....
Every year, more than 20,000 dolphins and small whales are killed in Japanese waters. One of the more unpleasant techniques used to do this is by drive hunts, where groups of dolphins are rounded...
An unusual occurrence of a 30ft Killer Whale was spotted some 15 miles Southeast of Barbados eating another whale last Saturday.
Fisherman James Peirce, who spotted the whale eating a dwarf Sperm...
Whales, Whaling, and Ocean Ecosystems, a new book from the University of California Press (December 2006), explores an aspect of whale ecology that until now has received surprisingly little...
On the 17th of December, Meike Scheidat & Linn Lehnert, the whale watchers on board of Polarstern, made a remarkable cetaceans sighting: Four Arnoux's Beaked Whales (Berardius arnuxii),...
Greenpeace has uncovered more than 170 tons of rotting whale meat in an Icelandic dump site, just months after Iceland reopened commercial whaling and killed seven endangered fin whales. Another...
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's Operation Leviathan is underway to stop the Japanese whaling fleets' illegal slaughter of over a thousand whales. With its newly acquired ship named the M/Y...
How would you like to be turned into china ornaments to place on old folks' mantelpieces, or cut into crystal shapes to dangle in hippie dippy windows and, like, emanate that crystal vibe? Would...
State coastal regulators voted Wednesday to impose restrictions on the U.S. Navy's use of sonar, which has been linked to harmful effects on whales and other marine mammals.
The Navy has...
A new and gloomy federal assessment of Cook Inlet's beluga whales projects a one-in-four chance the population could go extinct within 100 years, and better than a two-in-three probability the...
At least six whales have died since July as a result of digging under the sea to create a shipping route off India's southern coast, proving that the plan hurts the environment, activists said....
A rare North Atlantic right whale was lacerated multiple times and killed by a ship off the Georgia coast last week, causing scientists to again sound the alarm on these endangered creatures....
Walt's nephew Roy Disney gives an introduction to the series as a whole and this volume in particular. Roy started out his career as an assistant film editor on the True Life Adventure...
According to the Center for Biological Diversity, the North Pacific Right Whale -- once ranging from Baja California to Alaska -- is the most endangered large whale in the world, with perhaps as...
BITE BACK 30 / 12 / 06
BITE BACK - Commercial Whaling
By John Nightingale
Iceland's announcement of its intention to resume commercial whaling, immediately followed by the slaughter of...
Four deep gashes across the head of a juvenile southern right whale are graphic evidence of the dangers boats pose to the giant mammals of the ocean.
Cape Town veterinary surgeon and underwater...
We could blame our accents and different dialects on self-imposed borders but that doesn't explain why animals like whales from different regions speak in dialects. Using underwater microphones,...
Japanese whalers are likely to clash with environmentalists in Antarctica over the next two months as separate fleets head south prepared to confront each other in some of the world's most hostile...
In an attempt to protect the Yellow Sea's rich biodiversity from pollution, WWF is pushing for a joint marine protected area in the shared waters between China and the Republic of Korea.
The...
Marilyn Marx's view of the water is spectacular. From her second-story home office window, the world renowned whale researcher can look up from her computer to watch the gulls and cormorants as...
As we at Sea Shepherd are in the final stages of preparation for launching Operation Leviathan, I encourage you to remain positive, strong, and supportive as we struggle to move two ships, a...
Bill Curtsinger is one of the world's best known nature photographers and one of the few who dives in the icy cold waters on the poles. SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke with him about sharks, whales and other...
In the frigid waters off Argentina's southern Valdes Peninsula, the southern right whale is under attack from an odd-sounding predator: the seemingly docile seagull.
Uncovered garbage dumps and...
President Bush is deciding whether to lift a ban on oil and gas drilling in federal waters off Alaska's Bristol Bay, home to endangered whales and sea lions and the world's largest sockeye salmon...
For 18 years, a lovely green mermaid greeted visitors to the Florida Keys at mile marker 99.2. But sun, rain and time took their toll on her home -- a four-story cement block building in the median...
Britian's first marine wildlife watching code, developed by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), was launched yesterday by Rhona Brankin, the deputy environment minister.
Scotland's rugged...
A gorgeous gift book, Ocean Duets offers a rare glimpse of marine life. This stunning collection of underwater photographs captures a diverse array of sea creatures by the pair-mates, playmates,...
Humpback whales possess a vastly more elaborate vocabulary than was known, researchers now report.
Scientists had previously known of a very narrow range of sounds involved in humpback...
Humpback whales have a type of brain cell seen only in humans, the great apes, and other cetaceans such as dolphins, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
This might mean such whales are more...
Environmental groups this week successfully fought off a Bush Administration proposal to allow drift-gillnet fishing into protected areas off the Northern California and Southern Oregon coasts in...
A further 17 pilot whales have died on a northern New Zealand beach following a sudden restranding, a day after 37 whales died in the same area.
The rescue started on Friday morning when 80...
Japan has caught 35 whales off the coast of the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, officials say, under a research program that critics say is disguised commercial whaling.
The 42-day...
The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) will auction "rights" to a whale's life on the online site.
WSPA wants to raise $180,000 (A‚A?95,000), the value of meat from a...
Pirates seeking Chilean sea bass and fishing vessels that vacuum up tiny shrimp-like creatures that are a staple for whales, seals and penguins are menacing Antarctic waters, environmentalists said...
study of ten beaked whales of two poorly understood species shows their foraging dives are deeper and longer than those reported for any other air-breathing species. This extreme deep-diving...
Gasper, one of the beluga whales at the Georgia Aquarium, is enduring more health problems in the form of a failing immune system.
Tim Binder, the aquarium's director of husbandry, said the...
When a couple of thousand tonnes of whale come together at sea, it's best not to be caught in the middle.
But a group of amazed whale watchers had an awe-inspiring first-hand view of an...
Diving with whales is one of the most extraordinary experiences the planet has to offer; take this activity to a little-known French Polynesian isle, and it becomes an absolutely incomparable...
A SOUTH coast man has told how two whales toyed with his tiny runabout as they played an extraordinary game of peek-a-boo with his young daughter.
The humpbacks cavorted around Jon Poyner's...
The whales are counting on us for protection...
We are counting on you to get us there.
Japan will begin illegally killing over 1,000 whales again this fall
and Sea Shepherd will be there to...
Hooded seals, bottlenose whales and a manatee have been spotted in the waters of the northeastern U.S., leaving marine biologists puzzled as to why they have strayed from their natural habitats....
MABUL: Size matters. But bigger isn't necessarily better.
I'm talking (of course) about fish. And I have seen some very big fish indeed, from manta rays all languid and large to groupers the...
The Minke Whale Season has just finished on the Great Barrier Reef. ABC Far North producer Glynn Greensmith took the opportunity to take the trip of a lifetime, and go into the water with these...
Eleven beaked whales have died after being washed up on beaches near Mexico's sparsely populated Baja California peninsula.
The whales, which were found earlier this week mostly on islands in...
Sleek and fast, more than a dozen orcas slice through this busy waterway, astonishing kayakers as the 9,000-pound killer whales dive under the boats.
These mammals, some nearly a century old,...
For some strange perverse reason that only the so-called Japanese "scientists" can explain, 60 percent of all the female whales taken this last year in Antarctica were pregnant.
The...
From the cool blue wilderness of the Canadian high Arctic (by Louise Murray) to the red hot deserts of Jordan - from Beluga whales close to magnificent wrecks. Also in this issue lots of Ocean Art...
Unusually large numbers of dolphins and whales have been sighted off the eastern coast of Scotland this summer, including several species that are rare in these waters...
A US Senator has contacted the US Navy to enquire about the unexplained deaths of three whales on Andros earlier this year.
Virginia Senator John Warner is acting on behalf of Valerie Kelly, a...
Just weeks after the U.S. established the largest area of conservation on earth in creating the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument, Marine Sanctuaries Media announces that art...
Scientists have looked into the eyes of rare bowhead whales and learned that some of them can outlive humans by generations-with at least one male pushing 200 years old.
"About 5 percent...
Whales and other marine mammals will be better protected during military training exercises using sonar now that the U.S. Navy has agreed to increased safety measures in Hawaiian waters, an...
Our oceans and seas are in deep trouble, and if the Japanese government is to be believed, part of the blame rests with the whales.
This is nonsense, of course...
The hot blood of the great whales may soon flow freely into the cold frigid waters of the Southern Oceans as harpoon cannons roar and the long flensing knives reduce the world's largest intelligent...
The Ocean Conservancy posted a gallery of images and video clips in light of President Bush's action of protecting one of the last intact marine ecosystems in the world, one that is home to sharks,...
Kodiak Whale Fest begins Wednesday, promising more than a week of music, art, nature walks, lectures and above all, everything whales.
This marks the 10th anniversary of Whale Fest, begun by...
Scientists likely will never know why more than 30 whales beached along North Carolina's Outer Banks last January, although some evidence indicates sonar wasn't the cause, said a report the Navy...
This remote lagoon, surrounded by salt flats, mesas and desert, has been a sanctuary for gray whales for centuries.
Every year they return in January to these quiet, protected waters to give...
Anne Main has started a parliamentary group to fight for the protection of whales, coral and other sealife.
The All Party Parliamentary Group on Marine Animal Welfare has been officially...
The slow but steady comeback of the blue whale - the biggest creature to have lived on Earth that was driven nearly to extinction by commercial whalers - is continuing, the latest whale research...
Whales may be intelligent, but they're not human - so don't expect them to behave in a human-like way when they're entangled in ropes, lobster pots or buoys, says a visiting expert.
Whale...
A website has been set up in an attempt to get one million people to sign a petition to stop whaling.
When you insert your name & click on the sign the petition button you will be taken to...
Like robots of the deep, autonomous underwater vehicles, or AUVs, are growing in number and use in the oceans to perform scientific missions ranging from monitoring climate change to mapping the...
Scientists say as many as 25 sperm whales may be in danger of stranding themselves on Britain's beaches.
The Times of London said a pod of juvenile male sperm whales is believed to have...
A diving instructor has recorded what may be the first ever images of killer whales interacting with humans in Argentina.
Gabriel Hermida was on a boat taking new divers out for their first ever...
Japan's stock of whale meat from hunting for scientific research is so large that the country has begun selling it as dog food, a leading marine conservation organization said on Friday...
Deep Blue Resort in Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras (http://www.DeepBlueUtila.com) has teamed up with ECOCEAN (http://www.ECOCEAN.org) for one of the largest whale shark research projects ever...
The California gray whales are on a 6,000-mile journey - and for some reason, they love to hang in Orange County.
More specifically, they pick a spot in Dana Point, where a massive cliff stands...
Kicking off our list of the most viewed National Geographic News photos of the year is one whale of a discovery.
Egypt may not be the first place you'd look for whales, but once upon a time the...
More than two dozen whales and dolphins became stranded on the shores of Cape Cod Bay last week, and experts say the snowstorm may have contributed to their deaths.
Increasing levels of ocean noise generated by military sonar, shipping, and oil and gas exploration are threatening dolphins and whales that rely on sound for mating, finding food and avoiding...
An Australian delegation is in the Kenyan capital seeking tougher international protection for sharks, turtles, dugongs and whales.
The Nairobi talks this week are part of the eighth Conference...
UP to half of the world's coral reefs may disappear by 2045 unless urgent measures are taken to protect them against environmental hazards, particularly climate change, says the World Conservation...
The biggest shark in the sea comes here for an all-you-can eat buffet. Just off this remote speck of land three hours north of Cancun, whale sharks mass by the hundreds each summer in a spectacle...
According to a study by Australian scientists, the world's largest fish, the whaleshark is getting smaller.
Records show a reduction in the whalesharks' average size from 7 meters in 1995 to...
The archipelago's animal species read like a zoologist's directory: whales, marine turtles, rays and dolphins. (Although dugongs feature prominently in promotional literature, spotting them is...
Divers from the Emirates Diving Association (EDA) and Dubai police entered the water to check on the condition of the shark yesterday.
After several failed attempts to drive the harmless...
Divers from the Emirates Diving Association (EDA) and Dubai police entered the water to check on the condition of the shark yesterday.
After several failed attempts to drive the harmless...
A successful rescue of 120 false killer whales began Thursday morning on the west coast of Australia when 15 whales were found stranded at the Dolphin Bay Boat Ramp in Geographe Bay, West Bussleton.
One of Detroit's most famous public art landmarks is once again threatened with extinction. U.S. Outdoor, whose bid to cover a 10-story whale mural across from Comerica Park with a giant...
August 24, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
11th Annual San Diego UnderSea Film Exhibition
Friday and Saturday evenings, September 17 and 18th, 2010 7:00 pm
The judges’ results are...
