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There’s good news and bad news coming out of the North Atlantic right whale calving grounds off the Southeastern U.S.

The Association to Preserve Cape Cod has released its annual State of the Waters: Cape Cod report.

Researchers have identified a new-to-the-area North Atlantic right whale. They say it came three-thousand miles to get here.

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.