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The North Atlantic right whale calving season is underway. Researchers spotted the first mother and calf pair off the coast of South Carolina on Friday.

How do you give a whale a health checkup? Scientists have been collecting respiratory droplets from North Atlantic right whales, using petri-dish-carrying drones flying above their blowholes.

A group of students found a cold-stunned green sea turtle in Eastham last Thursday. The class called Mass Audubon’s hotline and put the first turtle rescue of the season in motion.

Ken Buesseler is a Senior Scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and next week he’ll be in Belém, Brazil at the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference.

A Cape spring herring run count showed below-average returns. Drought conditions are tough on river herring that require sufficient river flows to return to the ocean.

There are around 380 North Atlantic right whales in existence. Scientists identify them by catalog numbers but some also have names. This week, 18 whales were named.

An autonomous ocean glider, on a mission to circumnavigate the globe, is making its way from the waters off Cape Cod toward the gulf stream.

The population of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales is trending up.

Laela Sayigh is a senior research specialist in the biology department at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She’s headed down to Sarasota, Fla., where she’s been studying dolphin communication with the same population of bottlenose dolphins for nearly 40 years.

Caroline Collatos is a PhD candidate at UMass Boston working with the New England Aquarium. She spends her days on the island researching sandbar sharks.