When a whale lifts its massive tail and crashes it against the ocean surface, something far more calculated than playfulness ...

Several hundred scientists, government officials, and environmentalists gathered for an unusual two-day conference in Newport, Oregon, last week, entirely focused on a single species: gray whales. It ...

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Gray whales that normally spend their year moving between calving lagoons in Baja California and rich feeding grounds in the Arctic have increasingly been showing up somewhere well off that route: ...

Scientists from Mexico, the United States, Canada, Russia and elsewhere gathered in person and virtually last week at Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport for a landmark symposium on the ...

For decades, Willapa Bay kept native shrimp in check with pesticides that are now banned. New solutions have been hard to ...

SEATTLE — Gray whale deaths are rising along Washington’s coast, and researchers say the increase in strandings may reflect worsening changes in the Arctic ecosystem. John Calambokitis, a founder and ...

Dozens of gray whales once visited Port Orford in Southern Oregon on their way north. But this year, a research team saw only one during its six weeks at the coast. That near absence has become part ...

Saturday's tragic discovery of a dead juvenile gray whale in the Willapa River in Pacific County points to a bigger crisis. Washington’s gray whale population has dropped by more than 50% in the past ...

Scientists have uncovered an astonishing new chapter in humpback whale migration: two whales were found to have traveled between breeding grounds in Australia and Brazil, crossing more than 14,000 ...