Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Maui-based Whale Trust organization, the Ritz-Carlton Maui, Kapalua, will host a five-day Whale Tales 2026 event Thursday, Feb. 19, through Monday, bringing ...

A gray whale washed up along the beach in Alameda on Monday. It's the fifth whale to die in the San Francisco Bay in less than a month. WITH RESEARCHERS WHO ARE LOOKING INTO THIS TREND. FOUR OF THE ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Scientists confirm a dead gray whale washed ashore at San Francisco's Ocean Beach, the ninth this year found in the Bay Area. The dead gray whale became quite a spectacle as concerned ...

Want to spot nature’s largest animal in the wild? Late December is a great time to make it happen — and the weather might even play ball this year. Upward of 14,000 gray whales are expected to swim ...

Two gray whales washed up dead in the San Francisco Bay near Richmond over the past week, bringing the year’s total whale deaths to 22 in and around the bay, according to the Marine Mammal Center. The ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Six gray whales have died in and around the San Francisco Bay over the past week, bringing the total number of whales that have washed up this year to 15, according to the California ...

Five gray whales have died in the greater Bay Area over the past week, bringing the region's 2025 whale death toll to 14, officials announced Wednesday. The California Academy of Sciences and The ...

The great gray whale migration is back on the Oregon coast. The massive migration of eastern North Pacific gray whales — the longest mammalian migration in the world — sees thousands of whales ...

Pacific gray whale numbers have dropped to their lowest point since the 1970s, with calf numbers also at a record low. The decline follows a previous "unusual mortality event" from 2019-2023, raising ...

ALAMEDA — A dead gray whale was found rolling in the surf off Alameda South Shore Beach, according to the Marine Mammal Center and the California Academy of Sciences. The whale marks the fourth gray ...

Thirty years ago, scientists and conservationists believed whales were on the path to recovery: cutting-edge satellite tagging, acoustic monitoring, and global marine protection guaranteed survival.