Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A blue whale swims close to a large vessel near the Port of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Asha de Vos, CC BY-ND Imagine you are a blue whale ...

A UC Santa Cruz scientist who specializes in research at the intersection of big data and marine-life conservation has contributed to a new study that shows the vast majority of “hotspots” where ships ...

Heavily-used shipping lanes that pass through whale shark feeding grounds pose a threat to the species, according to scientists who have revealed areas where the creatures are at the highest risk.

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — It’s well known that cargo vessels and whales don’t mix; whale-ship collisions are one of the leading causes of death for the majestic creatures. However, between ...

(The Center Square) – An ominous report identifies 20 bridges nationwide at serious risk of ship collisions, potentially resulting in a collapse like the one that brought down the Francis Scott Key ...

STUDY BEGAN ALMOST A YEAR AGO. YEAH, SOON AFTER THE DALI SLAMMED INTO THE FRANCIS SCOTT KEY BRIDGE. PROFESSOR MICHAEL SHIELDS BEGAN WORKING TO FIGURE OUT HOW LIKELY BRIDGE AND SHIP COLLISIONS WERE ...

Imagine you are a blue whale swimming up the California coast, as you do every spring. You are searching for krill in the Santa Barbara Channel, a zone that teems with fish, kelp forests, seagrass ...

A new study has quantified the risk for whale-ship collisions worldwide for four geographically widespread ocean giants that are threatened by shipping: blue, fin, humpback and sperm whales.