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Whales

April 2026

  • a gray whale breaching in the water in the Pacific Ocean

    Unsuspecting windsurfer collides with gray whale in the San Francisco Bay

    Footage shows a man windsurfing being forcefully thrown from his board as a whale breaches off the California coast

March 2026

  • Aerial view of a whale surfacing in the ocean with a plume of water shooting from its blowhole.

    ‘God squad’ waives endangered species law to allow US drilling in Gulf of Mexico

  • Humpback whale stranded in shallow waters of Wismar Bay in the Baltic Sea

    Struggling humpback whale stranded for third time on German coast

  • A female whale named Rounder was surrounded by family members and others as she gave birth to her second calf

    Rare footage shows whales working together to support mother and her newborn – video

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  • Stranded whale.

    Whale stranded off Germany swims to freedom after days of efforts to save it

  • Scientists film whale giving birth while other whales work together to help her

  • Down to Earth newsletter
    Antarctic whales’ remarkable comeback is threatened by krill fishing

    Newsletter

  • Whale stranded in Baltic will die unless helped to move soon, say experts

  • Oldest-known whale song recording from 1949 – audio

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  • Oldest-known whale song recording provides new insight into ocean sounds

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Mass stranding of whales on Scottish beach caused by loyalty to their pod, report finds

February 2026

  • A mother and baby orca in the water. A woman has her hands on the mother's back

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    The race to save Wikie and Keijo: the mother and son orcas left in a shut-down aquarium

  • Southern right whales swimming in blue waters

    Australian climate and environment in focus
    Climate crisis linked to fall in southern right whale birth rates as researchers raise ‘warning signal’

January 2026

  • Beluga whales swim in a tank at Marineland amusement park in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, 9 June, 2023.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Valium, health checks and fabric slings: the complex logistics of moving 30 beluga whales

    Canada has reached a tentative deal for 30 belugas in an amusement park to be shipped to four aquariums in US
  • an aerial view of beluga whales in an enclosure

    Canada aquarium that threatened to kill its whales wants to sell them to US

    Marineland seeks approval to sell belugas to United States after its China export proposal was rejected
  • Headshot in profile of a grey seal pup.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Often brutal, always beautiful: the sea hounds of the Frisian Islands – in pictures

    For 10 years, the scientist and photographer Jeroen Hoekendijk has been observing pinnipeds such as seals and walruses on the fragile North Sea archipelago. Highly susceptible to warming and rising seas, the islands act as an advance warning sign of the climate crisis
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December 2025

  • people stand around a dead whale on a beach

    A dead whale shows up on your beach. What do you do with the 40-ton carcass?

    A fin whale washed ashore in Anchorage and was left there for months. Then a self-described ‘wacko’ museum director made a plan

November 2025

  • Beluga whales swim in an enclosure.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘It’s heartbreaking’: how 30 captive beluga whales have become pawns in row over animal cruelty

    As the government, Marineland of Canada and activists remain at loggerheads over whales’ fate, health and freedom of beloved animals hangs in balance
  • Narwhals swim in an clear passage of sea between frozen ice

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘The narwhals stop calling’: how the noise from ships is silencing wildlife in the Arctic

    Evidence that the whales and other marine animals are particularly vulnerable to sound is driving calls for quieter vessels
  • A soldier patrols the coast of Gorgona Island.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Can a wildlife paradise on a Colombian island survive the arrival of a military base?

    It took 40 years to turn Gorgona into a biodiversity haven and model marine protected area. Now a new coastguard station has sparked fears of militarisation and ecological ruin
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