To support salmon recovery, our research identifies how toxic flame retardants move through and build up in the Snohomish ...

“The importance of NOAA funding across a broad swath of programs along with their knowledge and technical expertise for the West Coast salmon and orca recovery cannot be overstated,” Erik Neatherlin, ...

The Centre for Whale Research says the newborn was spotted swimming alongside a whale known as J40 near Victoria on Sunday.

The black and slightly orange Bigg’s killer whale was spotted swimming with its mother, Sedna, in the Salish Sea ...

In her new book, "The Trees Are Speaking," Lynda Mapes shares what forests are telling us about how to partner with them to ...

A few whales started doing it, and pretty soon, the salmon hat was the backward baseball cap of the orca pod. By the next summer, salmon hats were so last year. Then the fad popped up again in 2024.

What is known is that they have a relatively stable supply of deep-swimming cartilaginous fish — such as sharks or rays — ...

She belonged to the endangered Southern Resident killer whale population, a type of orca that only eats salmon. As salmon stocks decline, only about 73 Southern Resident whales remain today.

RELATED: Grieving orca mom carries dead calf on her nose for ... quiet waters and abundant supplies of Chinook salmon to eat.

Since 2020, orca behavior in the Iberian Peninsula has ... such as the time when a group of orcas was seen wearing dead salmon on their heads like hats. The behavior, just like a human fad ...

RELATED: Only about half of Southern Resident orca calves survive ... a lack of Chinook salmon, which is the preferred food for Southern Residents; and boat noise, which inhibits their ability ...