Woods Hole Oceanographic Insititution

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.

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.

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.

The Department of Energy said the $7.6 billion in canceled grants do not meet the Trump administration’s goals.

The state Division of Marine Fisheries issued an advisory this week warning lobster fishers of low oxygen conditions in parts of Cape Cod Bay.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has signed off on a long-planned experiment that aims to fight climate change by pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and storing it in the ocean for thousands of years.

The state Division of Marine Fisheries and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have teamed up to launch an innovative passive acoustic monitoring network. The aim is to improve detection of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales in Massachusetts waters.

The rally was part of a national movement that's grown in response to the Trump administration's policies, which organizers say are a threat to scientific progress.

Seven years ago, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution built a new class of underwater vehicle, called Orpheus, to study the darkest recesses of the ocean. Private investors took notice. And now, the Orpheus is going commercial — looking to make a splash in industries working offshore.

The question of whether radioactive elements in the water would pose a threat to human health or the environment has sparked protests and heated debate at meetings of the state’s Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel. The panel invited the scientists to speak.