The U.S. government has promised to take “deregulatory-focused action” in amending a vessel speed limit rule designed to ...

The U.S.’s ocean regulator plans to make industry-friendly changes to a longstanding rule designed to protect vanishing ...

A North Atlantic right whale washed ashore on a Virginia barrier island, according to federal scientists, marking the second ...

A North Atlantic Right Whale, previously found entangled in a rope off of south Georgia, has been discovered dead off the ...

Scientists will conduct a necropsy to determine the cause of death, marking the second right whale fatality documented in ...

The dead right whale was a female. Scientists say they worry especially about deaths of females because the species is ...

A young North Atlantic right whale that state wildlife officials helped partially disentangle from fishing gear in December, ...

Once driven to the brink of extinction by commercial whaling, southern right whales slowly returned to Australian coastlines ...

Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...

Marine officials are working to determine the cause of death for a 3-year-old right whale that was found dead on a barrier island near the Eastern Shore this week.

When a right whale appeared trailing fishing gear in Cape Cod Bay Jan. 17, rescuers mobilized – underscoring challenges the species still faces.