Critically endangered North Atlantic right whales have returned to Cape Cod Bay in large numbers already in 2025. The Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) reports more than 70 individual right whales have ...

For the first time in 2024, a North Atlantic right whale mother and calf pair has been observed near Cape Cod Bay. Aerial observers from the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, Massachusetts ...

WASHINGTON— Conservation groups have filed a motion to intervene as defendants on behalf of NOAA Fisheries in a case challenging the agency’s 2008 vessel speed rule protecting North Atlantic right ...

The Cape Cod Canal reopened Monday to maritime vessels after three North Atlantic right whales, a critically-endangered species, cleared the canal. It was closed to vessels during the weekend, however ...