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 ...

Blue whales migrate during summer to feed in colder regions where krill is plentiful, like in the waters off California. They return to warmer regions such as the Gulf of California and the eastern ...

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 ...

Rice's whales living off the Gulf Coast of Texas will lose some protections after the U.S. Department of the Interior this week rescinded its notice to oil and gas companies to take extra ...

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 ...

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 ...

A blue whale mother and calf are swimming together in the Gulf of California in Baja, Mexico, one of the warm-water places blue whales spend their winter months. Only two blue whale births have ...

The Rice’s whale, which lives in a sliver of the Gulf of Mexico including off Tampa Bay, was already decimated by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, and scientists and environmentalists ...

Blue whale births remain unseen because they occur in winter, when researchers typically aren't observing them. By the time ...

McDermott has completed the engineering, procurement, construction, installation, and commissioning (EPCIC) activities at ...