A celebrity whale calf meets an untimely end near New York’s harbor, as his species struggles to hang on.
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More Sorrow For Right Whales
Tag Archives: Endangered Species
Sturddlefish And Jackalopes
From reality in a European lab to mythology of the American West, nature makes us wonder: Can this actually happen?
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A Near Miss Is Good News For Whales
A robust crop of whale calves is welcome news for a species on the brink.
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LePage And The Whales
Maine lobstermen face big costs to save a small number of whales, but the whales need all the help they can get.
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Rare Frogs And Illegal Drugs
A market-based strategy may curtail smuggling of endangered frogs. It could work for drugs too, if we dared to try it.
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A Fresh Crop Of Baby Whales
The species is still critically endangered, but at least right whales showed up in their Florida calving grounds this year.
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Grizzly Hunting, And Hunting Grizzlies
Grizzlies once roamed across most of the West. The idea that they can do so again is dangerous to humans and bears alike.
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A Fish Running Out Of Time
A handful of juveniles is the only proof scientists can find that the Atlantic whitefish has not already gone extinct.
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Where Are The Whales?
More bad news for a critically endangered whale: not a single mother-calf pair has been reported in nursery waters this year.
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For Whales, A Winter Of Excitement And Hope
Hope displaces dread as the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale produces its biggest calf cohort in years.
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