Whales

A number of indigenous leaders across the Pacific have signed a treaty granting all whales legal personhood in an effort to protect whale populations from the effects of climate change, NPR reported Wednesday.

A veteran sailor targeted twice by the same pod of orca whales claims they are honing their dangerous skills.

A group of four experienced a startling surprise when the ship they were sailing to French Polynesia hit a whale and began to sink.

NEW JERSEY – An alarming increase in the number of dead marine mammals washing up along the New Jersey coast has renewed enthusiasm against Trenton and White House plans to litter the shoreline with wind farms, a “green” measure on which Democrat Gov. Phil Murphy has gambled his legacy.

California whale watchers witnessed the moment a gray whale gave birth to a calf on Monday and could not believe their eyes.

A research team reportedly recorded a Southern right whale’s journey from South African waters to the Argentinian coast for the first time.

A Maine legislative committee rejected a bill meant to create a legal defense fund for lobster fishermen fighting against environmental regulations that activists claim will protect North Atlantic right whales.

Visitors to a St. Simons, Georgia, beach pulled together to save many of the stranded pilot whales beached on the shore.

Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore has testified to Congress on the imminent Sixth Great Extinction predicted in a recent UN report. His verdict could hardly be more devastating to the cause of environmental alarmism: he says there is no evidence to support these doomsday predictions whatsoever.

A grieving orca mother was spotted lifting the corpse of her infant to the surface for air off the coast of Victoria, British Columbia.

Dozens of whales tragically died on the southwestern tip of Australia in the wee hours of Thursday morning.

Bitcoin’s 3,000 percent profit, heavily concentrated ownership, and thin trading markets could be setting up the first crypto-currency for a manipulative “pump and dump” disaster.

Has anyone actually worked out yet what that Women’s March over the weekend was all about?

(AP) SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the U.S. Navy was wrongly allowed to use sonar that could harm whales and other marine life.

The warmer temperature of the eastern Pacific Ocean due to El Niño this year has created a life-threatening problem for whales traveling through the waters of California, luring them toward the coast, where they are entangled in fishing gear used by fishermen, crabbers and lobstermen.

One Direction singer Harry Styles apparently has a very loyal fan base.

According to the ACS-LA Gray Whale Census and Behavior Project, which for 31 years has monitored the number of whales passing by the Palos Verdes Peninsula, a record number of whales are migrating south past Southern California from the Arctic this year, reports Pete Thomas Outdoors.