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This week the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would push back planned protections for the North Atlantic right whale by another seven years.

Migratory Hudsonian Whimbrels are arriving on the Cape and Islands. Shorebird scientists will be out next week looking for young whimbrels to tag.

A bill before the Senate Rules Committee would designate the Atlantic horseshoe crab as the official marine invertebrate of the Commonwealth. Why is the horseshoe crab special to Massachusetts?

A pilot project to install eelgrass-friendly moorings in Nantucket Harbor is underway, and there are still spots available for boat owners to participate.

Provincetown-based responders helped save a small humpback whale entangled in fishing gear off the North Shore on Wednesday.

To encouraging chants by young campers and dignitaries alike, a sea turtle named Pancake made its way down a beach beside New York's Coney Island boardwalk on Thursday, July 23 and into the Atlantic Ocean.

Between nutrient pollution, climate-fueled severe storms, and warming ocean waters, our estuaries are at risk. But restoring wild oyster habitat could help.

The International Fund for Animal Welfare is calling a stranding event on Cape Cod the largest known mass stranding of bottlenose dolphins documented in the Northeast.

A regional seafood industry collaborative has been awarded a $15 million grant from the National Science Foundation.

The Trump administration has tried three times to defund the Ocean Observatories Initiative.