Climate Change Pushes Whales into Shipping Lanes

North Atlantic Right Whales in the South

Endangered North Atlantic right whales visit the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida every winter to birth their calves. Read their stories.

Scientists cautiously optimistic after right whale numbers ticked up in 2024

The slowly rising numbers come after a decade of population declines. But threats including entanglement in fishing gear, climate change and low birth rates still loom over efforts to save the animals from extinction.

Climate Change Threatens Whales, Dolphins, US Study Says

Marine mammals face major threats from the warming ocean temperatures

Whale and dolphin migrations are being disrupted by climate change

For millennia, some of the world’s largest filter-feeding whales, including humpbacks, fin whales, and blue whales, have undertaken some of the longest migrations on earth to travel between their warm breeding grounds in the tropics to nutrient-rich feeding destinations in the poles each year. “Nature has finely tuned these journeys, guided by memory and environmental cues that tell whales when to move and where to go,” said Trisha Atwood, an ec…

Whale, dolphin migrations being disrupted by climate change

For millennia, some of the world’s largest filter-feeding whales, including humpbacks, fin whales and blue whales, have undertaken some of the longest migrations on Earth to travel between their warm breeding grounds in the tropics to nutrient-rich feeding destinations in…

Three Arctic Seal Species Just Moved Closer to Extinction as Sea Ice Vanishes

Arctic seals are losing the ice they need to survive, and scientists say the crisis is accelerating.