Dolphins and whales have evolved over millions of years to maximize efficiency of movement through water.

The Navy has adopted a new plan for training in Hawaii waters that it says will allow it to accelerate some exercises and hold them more frequently while continuing to limit the effects of its sonar on marine mammals.The Navy created the training...

The Navy is challenging Hawaii’s authority to protect whales by restricting the use of sonar during training exercises, environmentalists and military representatives say.The Hawaii Coastal Zone Management Program, responsible for managing...

Whaling, environmentalists contend, if allowed to continue, will change the ecology forever. They believe that unrestrained whaling has led to unsustainable whaling where more whales are killed then nature is allowed to produce. On the other...

With scant regards to the sexual life of whales, the International Whaling Commission, a treaty organization grouping 80 countries, is seriously debating a possible resumption of commercial whale-hunting. If the IWC lifts its 12-year ban on...

A spotter bangs three times on the boat’s cabin roof, signaling the captain to cut the throttle _ now.In the foggy gray of Cape Cod Bay, the reason for the abrupt stop soon becomes apparent: The research vessel is surrounded by rare North...

An attempt to protect the endangered right whale from being killed by commercial ships has languished for more than a year in part because Vice President Dick Cheney’s office and White House economists questioned the conclusions of marine...

An unprecedented number of endangered northern right whales were feeding and lounging off the coast of Cape Cod, state and federal officials said.

The Bush administration has proposed allowing oil and gas drilling in an area of the Bering Sea considered important for the recovery of the world’s most endangered whale.The proposal opening up 5.6 million acres off the Alaska coast to...

Rescue workers saved one of two whales stranded on a New Zealand beach but were forced to shoot the other after efforts to guide it back to sea failed, a conservation official said Friday.Conservation Department staff and residents of Himatangi...