By Tara Lohan A key part of the United States’ clean energy transition has started to take shape, but you may need to squint to see it. About 2,000 wind turbines could be built far offshore, in federal waters off the Atlantic Coast, in the next 10 years. And more are expected. East Coast states […]
Like most of us, North Atlantic right whales have not had a very good 2020. First, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) report found that there were no more than 366 of the critically endangered species left. Then, the first known baby born this calving season washed up dead on a North Carolina beach. […]
By Rocky Kistner Despite their massive size, African forest elephants remains an elusive species, poorly studied because of their habitat in the dense tropical forests of West Africa and the Congo. But the more we learn about them, the more we know that forest elephants are in trouble. Like their slightly larger and better-known cousins, […]
An extremely rare North Atlantic right whale calf was found dead off the North Carolina coast on Friday. The male calf was also the first documented birth this calving season, a development the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) called devastating. “Each new right whale calf brings so much hope for this critically endangered species, […]
In the South Atlantic Ocean, a tiny island of 250 people has made a significant contribution to global marine conservation by protecting a huge swath of ocean under its control. To reach Tristan da Cunha, a UK overseas territory, one must make a seven-day boat trip from South Africa, reported National Geographic. The island chain […]
The U.S. Navy has secured permission for exercises in the Pacific Northwest that could harm endangered orcas and other marine mammals. The new rule, published in the Federal Register Thursday, would allow the Navy to increase the number of Southern Resident killer whales it could “take”—or potentially harm—from two a year currently to 51 a […]
The population of extremely endangered North Atlantic right whales has fallen even further in the last year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Monday. The agency said that there were only 366 of the whales as of January 2019, down from 412 in January of 2018, The Associated Press reported. But their numbers […]
By Tara Lohan A blue whale can weigh as much as 200 tons and consume 12,000 pounds of krill in a single day. But even the largest animal on Earth doesn’t stand a chance against a fast-moving cargo ship. Collisions between whales and shipping vessels are especially prevalent in areas where whale habitat overlaps with […]
Alexander Freund Pilot whales, sperm whales, beaked whales and deep-sea dolphins are the marine mammals most commonly involved in mass strandings. Baleen whales, on the other hand, a group to which all big whales except the sperm whale belong, strand very rarely. If these mammals become stranded, they can dry out, overheat, suffocate or suffer […]
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