Before its disastrous collapse last week, the Francis Scott Key Bridge served as an economically crucial gateway: thousands of container ships crossing from the Atlantic to Baltimore’s port passed ...

Global warming could increase the threat posed to whale sharks from large ships, according to a study published in Nature Climate Change, titled "Climate-driven global redistribution of an ocean giant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A blue whale swims close to a large vessel near the Port of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Asha de Vos, CC BY-ND Imagine you are a blue whale ...

Actually, that doesn't take much imagination because collisions involving everything from rowboats to supertankers are all too common. Google "ship collision" and you'll find a depressing parade of ...

According to the fossil record, cetaceans—whales, dolphins and their relatives—evolved from four-legged land mammals that returned to the oceans beginning some 50 million years ago. Today, their ...

Most shipping paths cross whale habitats, a recent analysis concludes, making ship collisions a “major threat” to the world’s whales. The study, published in Science last month, conducted a worldwide ...

All the mountains of stuff that we ship across the oceans comes at a price: whale blood. A recent study in the journal Science calculates just how much, reporting that — thanks to the near-total ...

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. A comprehensive new analysis reveals that ...

Most have stronger defenses against ship collisions than the Key Bridge had, such as more robust fender systems or larger concrete structures designed to deflect oncoming vessels, according to ...