Boaters spotted a leatherback turtle in trouble in Cape Cod Bay. A storm was moving in — a team from Provincetown answered ...

Threshers are not named for the thrashing motion of their tail, as many assume. Instead, their name comes from a farming ...

Conservation nonprofit Oceana said the U.S. government’s new rebuilding plan for Pacific sardines puts the species on the ...

OARRA collects samples of dead animals’ lungs, brains, blubber and more, compiling a biological library of clues for researchers around the country. The data helps scientists learn more about what’s ...

The Trump administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service will delay until summer 2027 a final rule for protections of the ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is well known for its weather-related work, which for decades has included studying the science of climate change. Less familiar to the general ...

NOAA Fisheries initially closed the Northern Gulf of Maine Scallop Management Area to all federally permitted limited access general category scallop vessels effective April 11, and 10 days later ...

Current and former employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration say fewer people working with fewer resources could whittle away the agency’s ability to carry out its mission.

At least 27 percent of staff who worked at NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center when Trump took office are no longer with the agency. The Woods Hole lab is at the center of the regional ...

Staff and budget cuts at local offices of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), are degrading weather forecasts and adding chaos to New England's commercial fisheries ...

Four rehabilitated Hawaiian monk seals have been returned to the wild, according to NOAA Fisheries.