orcas

Transport Minister Marc Garneau said Thursday a Canadian firm will be tapped to provide hydrophones for an underwater listening station at Boundary Pass, a critical location for southern resident killer whales.

Calls to breach four hydroelectric dams in Washington state have grown louder in recent months as the plight of critically endangered Northwest orcas has captured global attention.

Scientists in British Columbia used whale whisperer tactics on Thursday, August 2, 2018, to coax a large male killer whale out of a busy marine harbour by playing recorded sounds of other orcas to the animal.

The city has blamed the company’s incompetence for delays, explaining that Kinder Morgan has struggled to follow the rules that apply to all developers. But during a hearing on Wednesday, a lawyer for the city, Gregory McDade, objected to "softball questions" from the NEB to Kinder Morgan.

The rich social interaction and highly evolved brains of some whales are linked in a kind of evolutionary feedback loop, a newly published paper suggests.

An interview with the potential King or Queen-maker of the B.C. election.

The federal government has released a recovery plan for an endangered population of killer whales likely to be in the path of increased oil tanker traffic off British Columbia's southern coast.

A study has concluded that the increased presence of killer whales in Arctic waters is intimidating narwhal into drastically changing their behaviour.

Ships off the West Coast could be forced to yield the right of way to killer whales as part of a federal ocean protection plan, says a Liberal MP.

The world's top orca experts say the presence of a massive oil terminal in Vancouver poses a real threat to the long-term survival of the Southern Resident killer whales, writes Mark Leiren-Young.