Despite the threat to whales, less than 7% of these ship strike hotspots currently have protections. While this situation won’t change overnight, protecting just an additional 2.6% of the ocean would ...

A humpback whale has been recorded in the Shannon estuary for the first time. The whale was first spotted by a passenger ...

In a University of Washington-led paper published in the journal Science, UC Santa Barbara researchers add some clarity to that picture and it’s sobering: Global shipping traffic overlaps with about ...

Conservation helped stop most whale hunting. Now shipping kills them and little is done to avoid collision risk ...

Fears have been raised of potential 'ship-strike' if speeds in the estuary are not reduced to 10 knots or 19km/h, which could ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – A ship strike may be to blame for the death of a sperm whale that stranded north of Charleston earlier this year. The Lowcountry Marine Mammal Network assisted in the ...

Clare Irish Whale and Dolphin Group contact Harbour Master at Shannon Foynes Port Company over risk of a 'ship strike' ...

An estimated 90 percent of all traded goods travel by sea, where vessels tap into a vast network of shipping routes that connect even the most far-flung places. But humans aren’t the only ones ...

A BC Ferries passenger on board the Queen of Alberni Nov. 2, reported that the ship hit a whale, but that’s yet to be confirmed. The ship was travelling between Duke Point, in Nanaimo, and Tswawassen, ...

A BC Ferries passenger on board the Queen of Alberni Nov. 2, reported that the ship hit a whale, but that’s yet to be confirmed. The ship was travelling between Duke Point, in Nanaimo ...

"While entanglements remain the leading cause of death and injury, this year [2024] there were at least six vessel ...