Save the Chimps is an organization unlike any other. The world’s largest privately funded chimpanzee sanctuary, it’s home to ...

Benefits that whales bring extend far beyond the ocean – they help us, humans, too. Coastal communities around the world rely ...

The Seattle Times’ recent article gives the most comprehensive view I’ve seen yet regarding the plight of orcas and salmon (“Where is Tahlequah? What we know about the mother orca and her calf,” The C ...

Imagine a species with fewer individuals than seats on a school bus. Now imagine that each weighs more than the bus itself. That’s Rice’s whale, the only resident baleen whale in the Gulf of ...

California's Dungeness crab industry is under increasing regulation because of concerns over whales getting entangled in ...

The Trump administration and Elon Musk are reportedly taking aim at NOAA, the agency responsible for the National Weather ...

Orcas, like humans, get baby bumps in the early months of pregnancy and grow larger as the pregnancy advances. Researchers ...

The endangered southern resident killer whales that visit Puget Sound were listed for protection under the federal Endangered ...

UW students and community members gathered in Kane Hall for a screening of the 2021 documentary Coextinction. WashPIRG hosted ...

It’s important knowledge because when whales strand, are refloated, and then strand again, the people working to save them ...

A federal appeals court is reinstating rules designed to protect a vanishing whale species from entanglement in fishing gear.

Commercial fishermen who hoped for a loosening of fishing regulations during President Donald Trump’s administration faced a setback when a federal appeals court reinstated rules meant to protect a ...