Researchers have known for decades that orcas across the North Pacific have harmful pollutants in their system. Now, a new study reveals orcas in the western North Atlantic, including those in the ...

A young female orca has tragically lost her life because of plastic pollution. The 16-foot whale was found dead on a beach in the state of Espírito Santo, on the east coast of Brazil, with a 2.5 ...

SEATTLE — People have taken many steps in recent decades to help the Pacific Northwest's endangered killer whales, which have long suffered from starvation, pollution and the legacy of having ...

Decreasing water pollution, along with protections against hunting and harassing both mammal-eating killer whales and their prey under the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, has allowed orcas ...

An orca that carried her dead calf with her for ... the quality and quantity of their prey have diminished and because of pollution from industrial chemicals like polychlorinated biphenyls ...

The appearance of a new orca calf in Washington’s Puget Sound ... as well as increasing pollution and boat disturbances in the Salish Sea, which encompasses Puget Sound, according to the U.S ...

Both elegant and fierce, killer whales are some of the oceans' top predators, but even they can be exposed to environmental pollution. Now, in the largest study to date on North Atlantic killer ...

The same orca has just lost another calf ... to their survival include a lack of salmon to eat, as well as water pollution and boat noise. Washington state and federal agencies have been ...

human interference and pollution of their environments. It’s estimated there are only 50,000 killer whales globally. Contaminants in the water are a large concern for the killer whale population.

The appearance of a new orca calf in Washington's Puget Sound ... as well as increasing pollution and boat disturbances in the Salish Sea, which encompasses Puget Sound, according to the U.S ...