House Bill 1923 by Rep. Greg Nance, a Kitsap Democrat, is scheduled for an executive session Monday in the Senate Transportation Committee.

Melting ice is an emblem of climate change. For sea ice, the Arctic has been grabbing most of the headlines for its truly alarming rate of decline. But recently Antarctica has followed suit.

Killer whale research occupies a vital space in marine ecology, illuminating the complex interactions between apex predators and their environments. Despite ...

With warm — relative to Alaska — spring waters, migratory rest-stops and great feeding grounds, Los Angeles County’s coast is considered part of the “Blue Highway,” a crucial whale migration corridor ...

With warm — relative to Alaska — spring waters, migratory rest-stops and great feeding grounds, Los Angeles County’s coast is ...

Seven days out is your guide to entertainment events, concerts, festivals and activities in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties.

A long-term study using DNA from whale scat has revealed surprising complexity in the diets of southern Alaska’s fish-eating killer whales.

Fish-eating killer whales in southern Alaska have a diverse, seasonally changing diet featuring salmon and groundfish, according to a recently published study in the journal Ecosphere. The types of ...

Horses have a vocal trick no one fully understood until now. Scientists have discovered that when a horse whinnies, it produces two completely different sounds at the same time. One is a deep tone ...

The Burke Museum hosted a book club meeting Feb. 19, discussing “Spirit Whales and Sloth Tales: Fossils of Washington State” by Elizabeth Nesbitt and David B. Williams. This e ...

The nearly 80-year-old disc resided in the archives of the the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for decades and may hold ...