A NOAA photo of a Rice's whale—the species has lost some of its protections in the northern Gulf of Mexico. A NOAA photo of a Rice's whale—the species has lost some of its protections in the ...

N ext year could prove to be a make-or-break year for the existence of the Rice’s Whale, one of the rarest whales in the world found only in the Gulf of Mexico, as two court cases determining ...

“The Rice's whale is essentially ‘America's Whale,’ as the only great whale species which resides year-round in the Gulf of Mexico. It is also one of the most critically endangered whales on ...

Louisiana's oil and gas industry is cheering a move by the Trump administration to roll back protections in the Gulf for the highly endangered Rice’s whale, though wildlife advocates warn it ...

That’s because the Trump administration lifted a layer of protection for the endangered Rice's whale. It is found only in the Gulf of Mexico, which President Donald Trump renamed to the Gulf of ...

BALTIMORE— Under an agreement approved today in U.S. District Court in Maryland, federal agencies will seek better ways to protect endangered Rice’s whales and other imperiled marine species from ...

The notice, which affects a large swath of the Gulf of Mexico, was put in place in 2023 to specifically protect Rice’s whale, an endangered marine mammal. While the exact number of Rice’s ...

A federal court in Maryland vacated a 2020 biological opinion issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service about how fossil fuel extraction in the Gulf of Mexico is impacting protected species, ...

The Saguaro LNG project also poses significant climate threats. LNG is a major source of methane emissions, a greenhouse gas about 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the short term. The ...