On May 21, federal officials intend to replace a flawed 2020 assessment of threats to the whale, which dismissed the known risks of future oil spills, to ensure that oil and gas drilling doesn’t ...

The oil spill, which happened in April 2010 ... UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography found that sperm whale populations have declined by about 31% and beaked whales by about ...

The ruling could set a precedent that forces any new offshore drilling activity to take protections for the rare whale into ...

this leaves the door open for another massive oil spill like what occurred in 2010. If this were to happen again, it is very unlikely that Rice's whales would be able to survive it. Consequently ...

Since then, plastic trash has been discovered increasingly in the stomachs of dead seabirds and whales. HK tanker oil spill at Unesco World Heritage site is ‘worse’ and threatening local ...

WASHINGTON— The D.C. District Court on Thursday found unlawful a 73-million acre offshore oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf ...

(CN) — Multiple conservation groups sent notice Thursday of plans to sue the Trump administration for stripping away expanded protections of the critically endangered Rice’s whale from deadly ship and ...

At least four species of marine mammals have been killed by the oil spill, including bottlenose dolphins, spinner dolphins, melon-headed whales and sperm whales. Oiled marine mammals have been ...

including the Rice’s whale, which exists only there. The biological opinion was unlawful in part because it neglected to consider the impact of foreseeable oil spills on the wildlife there and did not ...

Here's what we know. We still don’t know the full impacts of the BP oil spill, 10 years later We still don’t know the full impacts of the BP oil spill, 10 years later Ten years later ...

A 30-year veteran of oil spill wars, Ploen ... everything from zooplankton to sperm whales. He's particularly concerned about bluefin tuna, which spawn only in the Gulf and in the Mediterranean ...