All Articles Tagged As: whales

University professor stresses links between US Navy sonar and whale strandings (11/2/2008)

Paper highlights policy issues important to this week's Supreme Court case ...> Full Article

New study finds most North Pacific humpback whale populations rebounding (5/22/2008)

Some humpback populations still slow to recover ...> Full Article

Smart buoys warn ships of whales (4/29/2008)

Endangered North Atlantic right whales are safer along Massachusetts Bay's busy shipping lanes this spring, thanks to a new system of smart buoys ...> Full Article

Northern Right Whales Head South to Give Birth, Leave Genetic 'Fingerprints' (3/6/2008)

Like many northerners who head south to warmer climates for the winter, many Northern right whales also head south in November and stay into April. Their destination is the only known calving ground for this rare and endangered population-the waters off Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. When they arrive, NOAA scientists are there to greet them, and to take DNA samples. ...> Full Article

Fin whales' big gulp (11/27/2007)

Some baleen whales, in their powerful feeding lunges, gulp a volume of water equal to a school bus, according to new calculations by biologists at the University of British Columbia and the University of California, Berkeley. ...> Full Article

Right Whales In The Wrong Place - No Bones About It (10/24/2007)

Researchers hope their work will someday help save the North Atlantic right whale from extinction ...> Full Article