The Makah Tribe has submitted a permit application to NOAA Fisheries that will allow it to hunt up to 25 eastern North Pacific gray whales over a 10-year period, starting with one harvest this summer ...

The Makah Tribe has formally requested permission to resume its traditional whale hunt this July. A permit application is out ...

Whales are not just big, they’re a big deal for healthy oceans. When they poop, whales move tons of nutrients from deep water ...

“One big difference is that whales are often traveling thousands of miles across ocean basins–great whales undertake the ...

Through urine, feces, placentas, carcasses, and sloughing skin, whales bring thousands of tons of nitrogen and other nutrients from high-latitude areas like Alaska and Antarctica to low-nutrient ...

The study focused on a handful of baleen species — namely, gray whales, humpback whales and right whales — which display ...

Scientists have discovered that whales move nutrients thousands of miles -- in their urine -- from as far as Alaska to Hawaii. These tons of nitrogen support the health of tropical ecosystems and fish ...

The study focused on a handful of baleen species — namely, gray whales ... “Because of their size, whales are able to do things that no other animal does,” Andrew Pershing, a coauthor ...