Marine ecosystem-based management (EBM) is a growing practice of ocean stewardship and conservation that offers benefits to the production of healthy, local food and the preservation of clean water, as well as recreation, ...
Ecology
May 9, 2024
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Marine researchers have mapped the density of one of the most endangered large whale species worldwide, the North Atlantic right whale, using newly analyzed data to predict and help avoid whales' harmful, even fatal, exposure ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 12, 2024
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It sounds like a crime show episode at sea: In late January 2024, federal regulators learned that a dead female North Atlantic right whale had been sighted near Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. The whale was towed to shore, ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 13, 2024
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New findings show the severe impact of fishing gear entanglements on the survival of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales, with every injury from entanglements impacting population recovery.
Plants & Animals
Mar 13, 2024
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The first confirmed baby right whale of the year has been found dead from a collision with a ship, a devastating blow for the vanishing species.
Plants & Animals
Mar 5, 2024
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An endangered North Atlantic right whale calf that was recently spotted with severe wounds from a vessel strike has been found dead on Georgia's Cumberland Island, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 5, 2024
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A team of oceanologists affiliated from the U.S. and Scotland has found reductions in body size of female North Atlantic right whales is resulting in fewer births, endangering the species. In their study, published in Royal ...
Two federal environmental agencies issued plans Thursday to better protect endangered whales amid offshore wind farm development.
Ecology
Jan 25, 2024
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Research from The University of Western Australia has found some southern right whale calves are little "milk thieves."
Plants & Animals
Jan 22, 2024
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The Savannah River meets the Atlantic Ocean at Fort Pulaski National Monument, the brick citadel built to guard this port city in the years before the Civil War.
Plants & Animals
Jan 18, 2024
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