naturalist Celia Ackerman calls excitedly to the captain. “Behind the green buoy!” It’s half an hour into a whale-watching cruise aboard the 95-foot American Princess, and we’re not in ...

This story originally appeared in the Santa Barbara Green Guide 2025/26, a collaboration publication between ‘Santa Barbara Independent’ and ‘Bluedot Living‘. Dave Beezer, captain of the ...

a one-month-old humpback whale nuzzles up to its mother. Then, a cloud of dark yellow urine gushes into the water, like a golden smoke bomb, and everything becomes tinged with green. This ...

Scientists at UC Santa Cruz and local entrepreneurs are collaborating on a $350,000 restoration of the Seymour Center’s blue ...

A rare encounter where a kayaker in Chile was briefly scooped into the mouth of a humpback whale has been caught on camera. A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia ...

Hal Whitehead, a marine biologist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, says videos of sperm whale carcasses, like the one taken in Newfoundland this week, can help scientists figure out where to ...