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A research project spearheaded by the Tsawwassen First Nation is trying to help understand why sturgeon, an ancient fish, are dying unexpectedly.

Proposals to expand the Port of Churchill in northern Manitoba could bring an increase in shipping traffic -- and some experts suggest that could affect the behaviour of the whales that are not only a major tourist draw in the, but an important food ...

Discovery Geopark, located on the upper half of Newfoundland and Labrador's Bonavista Peninsula, has regained its full status as a Global Geopark under the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.

Scientists at the University of Maine and the New England Aquarium in Boston are working together to improve their modelling to predict where endangered North Atlantic right whales will pop up next.

Two boats were rammed by a pod of young orcas recently off the coast of Portugal. One of the boats sank. Experts say it was play behaviour, but the whales caused quite the fright.

The first treaty to protect marine diversity in international waters will come into force early next year, after Morocco became the 60th nation to ratify the agreement on Friday.