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 ...

Protecting Blue Whales and Blue Skies (BWBS), a vessel speed-reduction program for safer whales, cleaner air, and a quieter ocean, has released a mid-season report on the 2025 season that runs May ...

(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 ...

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 ...