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A dead female humpback whale more than 32 feet long washed up on the shore of Brigantine, New Jersey, in January 2023. (Marine Mammal Stranding Center/Facebook)

Since December 1, there have been nine whale strandings along the eastern U.S. coastline.

The cause of Mondays washing ashore of a dead humpback whale was found to likely be a case of vessel strike.

ABC57 News in South Bend, Ind. covers all of Michiana including St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte and Marshall counties in Indiana and Berrien, Cass, Van Buren and St. Joseph counties in Mich.

Seven dead whales have washed ashore in New Jersey and New York in less than two months. Some are blaming offshore wind energy sites, but federal officials are pushing back.

Perhaps missed over the holidays, the mammoth $1.7 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 (the Act) was signed into law by President Biden on December 29, 2022. It includes...

Officials from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration say they remain concerned about a recent pulse of whale deaths in the area.

A dead humpback whale was found Monday on the shores of a beach at Maryland's Assateague Island National Seashore. There were no obvious signs of the cause of death.

(Maalaea, Maui) – A dozen or more times each season, humpback whales while on their principal breeding and calving grounds within the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary (sanctuary) […]

Washington is a major hub for oil transport and refining. Every year, over 18 billion gallons of oil comes through the state, making an oil spill an...