The declining body size of North Atlantic right whales may have critical consequences for the future of the species. New research, co-authored by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's senior scientist Michael Moore, shows ...
Plants & Animals
May 12, 2022
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Scientists no longer have to collect poop to get key data on the health of endangered right whales. A new study indicates that under the right conditions, scientist can get real-time hormonal data by collecting the spray ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 17, 2018
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Researchers off the coast of Provincetown said Saturday they'll keep trying to free an endangered North Atlantic right whale from fishing line wrapped around her jaw.
Plants & Animals
Apr 14, 2018
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A study published this week in the scientific journal Frontiers in Marine Science found that opening the 3.14 million acre Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument to commercial fishing reduces species protection ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 9, 2021
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Scientists who work with live organisms often have to move them between locations. This requires knowing what conditions creatures can tolerate well, and also can involve some unusual packing challenges. Here three researchers ...
Ecology
Jan 25, 2019
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Whale researchers in New England believe they've found a new way to measure the amount of stress felt by whales when they experience traumas such as entanglements in fishing gear, and they say the technique could help protect ...
Plants & Animals
May 29, 2019
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New research finds climate change is having an impact on how large whale species, including the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, use habitats in the warming Gulf of Maine, showing that right whales' use of ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 9, 2022
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The steady drone of motors along busy commercial shipping lanes not only alters whale behaviour but can affect the giant sea mammals physically by causing chronic stress, a study published Wednesday has reported for the first ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 8, 2012
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Never mind the robins. The real harbingers of spring, Canada's "ice seals," are returning to the Massachusetts coastline.
Ecology
Feb 18, 2016
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What happens when a fisherman tosses a fish back overboard?
Ecology
Dec 21, 2015
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