Now it’s time to work toward a thriving North Pacific right whale population.” The petition urging habitat expansion cited growing threats to the whale from vessel strikes, entanglement in fishing ...

The federal government plans on reviewing a request to increase critical habitat in Alaska waters for North Pacific right whales ... bristles they use to filter ocean water and capture food ...

An area of underwater real estate has significantly darkened, squeezing 90% of marine life into an ever-shrinking zone near ...

The researchers estimated that 96 percent of the core blue marlin habitat experienced declines over the 16-year span of the study. Declines were found to be highest in the North Atlantic, the Indian ...

For starters, its members live year-round in the North Pacific Ocean, while most other orcas ... depleted the number of orcas around the globe. Habitat and hunting protections have since helped ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch occupies water between North America’s west coast ... Essentially, the researchers found a habitat in the open ocean that was enabled by human pollution.

Scientists are pretty good at recognizing marine heat waves: A global network of thousands of oceanic buoys and orbiting satellites allow them to see, in real time, ocean surface temperatures ...

A cargo hold full of debris and plastic plucked from a floating garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean known as the North Pacific Gyre ... to create a habitat where the ocean life isn't being killed ...

Marine animals that usually live only in coastal areas of the western Pacific Ocean have ... of an artificial floating habitat for coastal marine life in the open ocean, was published in the ...