The organization's Marine Animal Rescue and Response Team was busier in the first nine months of 2024 than all of 2023, ...

Democrat Maura Healey says slowing vessels to 10 knots near Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard would create chaos without ...

The order reflects Trump's opposition to wind energy, stating that the consequences of onshore and offshore wind projects ...

Marine life researchers hope samples taken from a young humpback whale whose body washed ashore at Rexhame Beach in Marshfield on Thursday will offer more information into her cause of death.

Latest spate of whale deaths 'unprecedented,' but vessel strikes, entanglements are chief concern Since December, at least eight dead whales have washed ashore in Massachusetts, and five more have ...

making it the sixth large whale stranding in Massachusetts in as many months, according to a marine mammal rescue group. Whale and Dolphin Conservation called the series of incidents dating to ...

Massachusetts politicians were fine with the economic costs of protecting endangered species – but only when it meant ...

NOAA has proposed new speed restrictions for boats across the East Coast that Gov. Maura Healey hopes will be amended.

President Trump will halt new federal leases for wind energy, the White House confirmed Monday, a blow to Massachusetts’ ...

In recent months, President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly said offshore wind turbines are harming, and perhaps killing, ...

After two years of debate and 90,000 public comments, NOAA withdrew a contentious boat speed rule aimed at Atlantic right ...

The proposed rules would have slowed more ships to prevent collisions with endangered North Atlantic right whales.