UPDATE (Thursday, January 10th, 10:40am ET): Canadian media outlets are reporting that the trapped whales off the coast of northern Quebec are free at last. There are reports that the blanket of ice has shifted, thanks to a sudden change in wind direction. Tommy Palliser, a leader of the nearby [...]

Marineland is set for a sweeping inspection of its mass animal graves by Ontario’s environment ministry. This week, the Niagara Falls tourist attraction will have to open its doors to government inspectors, who had no idea these mass graves existed because the park has no permits. There are reports that [...]

Marineland is the home to mass animal graves—four mass graves with thousands of animals—even though the park has no permits. The park, which opened in 1961, contains the corpses of whales, dolphins, sea lions, seals and walruses, amongst other animals. “One of life’s sad truths is that animals sometimes die [...]

A unique species of resident killer whales living off the coast of Washington’s iconic Puget Sound has unwittingly garnered the ire of big ag. Pacific Liberty Foundation, an infamously anti-environment property rights group, has filed a petition on behalf of two large Central California valley farms – Empresas Del Bosque [...]

Oil spills occur when people are careless and cause an oil tanker to leak oil into the ocean. There are some other ways for causing an oil spill like equipment breaking down may also cause an oil spill. If the equipment breaks down, the tanker may get stuck on shallow [...]

The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) is currently considering seismic airgun testing for oil and gas exploration in the Atlantic Ocean. But environmentalists are on a campaign to educate the public about the potential dangers of this practice. Seismic testing involves the use of airguns, which are towed behind [...]

To bypass our own Marine Mammal Protection Act, the Georgia Aquarium has petitioned the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Fisheries Service to allow it to import 18 wild-caught beluga whales currently being held in Russia. Sea World Parks, the largest marine park operator in the world, will most likely [...]

A report published online Oct. 1 in the journal Conservation Biology found that whale deaths over the past 40 years in the northwest Atlantic Ocean were mostly human-caused. Led by Julie van der Hoop of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, the study looked at 1,762 known whale deaths and injuries from [...]

The day Obama was sworn in as president, my neighbor flew his Hummer-sized American flag at half mast. I thought it was pretty funny. At that point I still had a lot of hope for the whole “Change you can believe in” mantra. Based on the position of the United [...]

On July 4th, South Korea’s delegate, Kang Joon-suk, unveiled to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) that his country intends to start hunting minke whales for scientific research. Ultimately, South Korea intends to analyze the ecological and biological data in order to gauge the quality and size of nearby whaling populations. [...]