Even as global emissions plateau, new research shows that wildlife in the Arctic is exposed to rising levels, posing a risk ...

Whalebacks were invented and designed by Capt. Alexander McDougall (1845-1923), a Scottish immigrant and industrialist.

At the U.N. Ocean Conference, Tonga’s princess called for recognition of whales’ legal rights. The move is one of several ...

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A body of a gray whale found on a San Francisco Bay Area beach marks the 18th death of 2025 for the marine mammals in the ...

Sharma is a graduate student at CSAIL and works with advisors like our own Daniela Rus to advance this kind of discovery.

This is the first report of 7:3 FTCA in polar bears (∼1000 ng/g, ww) and cetaceans (<6–190 ng/g, ww). In 18 out of 25 samples, EOF was not significantly greater than fluorine concentrations derived ...