Orcas, or killer whales, are deadly and beautiful apex predators. Hurricane Erin rapidly strengthens to Category 5 storm near ...

After nearly three decades as a Seattle Times reporter, Lynda V. Mapes shares highlights from her coverage of the environment ...

Jessica Radcliffe Orca Attack Viral Video is AI Hoax. Fact-checkers confirm no such trainer or incident occurred. Latest in online animal attack hoaxes, raising alarms about AI misinformation and ...

Scientists from NOAA’s Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center and other institutions found that between 1999 and 2022, the population of protected dolphins — known as “false killer whales” — shrunk ...

An orca that hangs around the waters of New England, known as Old Thom, was spotted north of Cape Cod this past weekend. The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy confirmed the "killer whale" sighting in a ...

A recent video that went viral showed a 23-year-old marine trainer named Jessica Radcliffe supposedly being attacked fatally ...

A viral video falsely claimed the death of orca trainer Jessica Radcliffe. Fact checks revealed the video as fake. The audio ...

No, the TikTok video showing a trainer named Jessica Radcliffe dying in the mouth of an orca killer whale is not real. It ...

Two Washington agencies are proposing to dial the oil spill prevention rules for tankers and tank barges up a notch in the ...

Scientists from Stockholm University and the Swedish Museum of Natural History, in collaboration with partners in Greenland ...

A new report finds that efforts to protect the dolphins are not working. Experts blame both fishing vessels and NOAA.

Orcas, despite their fearsome reputation as 'killer whales,' rarely attack humans in the wild. While incidents have occurred in captivity, experts attribute these to stressful conditions. Media ...