Oil Linked to Perinatal Dolphin Deaths in Gulf

Apr 12: A new study finds higher rate of illness in dead fetuses and newborns after Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Can the Vaquita be Saved from Extinction?

Mar 10: Fewer than 100 vaquita remain, making this species of porpoise the most endangered marine mammal in the world.
Study Shows Decreased Gulf Dolphin Reproduction

Nov 3: A team of scientists is reporting a high rate of reproductive failure in dolphins exposed to oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill. The team has monitored these bottlenose dolphins in heavily-oiled Barataria Bay for five years following the spill.
DWH Oil Spill Contributed to Gulf Dolphin Deaths

May 21: A tissue study finds that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill contributed to a high number of Gulf dolphin deaths. The study finds petroleum contaminants the likely source of lung and adrenal lesions causing deaths.
New Tool Aids US Conservation of Whales, Dolphins

Mar 10: Researchers have identified more than 100 areas within U.S. waters that should be considered biologically important when making management and regulatory decisions about human activities that could affect whales, dolphins and porpoises.
New Study May Reveal Clues to Dolphin Deaths

Feb 11: A new study has found four distinct groupings of dolphin deaths within the Northern Gulf of Mexico Unusual Mortality Event (UME). Three of the groupings followed the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Prescott Grants Awarded for Marine Mammal Rescue

Sep 19: NOAA Fisheries announced the award of 35 grants to partner organizations in 18 states totaling $2.7 million to respond to and rehabilitate stranded marine mammals and collect data on their health.
How to get DNA from a Dolphin

Jul 9: A scientist at the NOAA Fisheries National Systematics Lab studies dolphins by analyzing their DNA. But first, she has to get their DNA.
Scientists Report Some Gulf Dolphins Gravely Ill

Dec 18: Bottlenose dolphins in Louisiana’s Barataria Bay have lung damage and adrenal hormone abnormalities not previously seen in other dolphin populations, according to a new peer-reviewed study.
Dolphin Mortality Events Prompt More Patrols

Sept 9: Unusual mortality events of dolphins along the east coast spur increased presence of enforcement officers.
What's Causing Bottlenose Dolphins to Strand?

Aug 27: NOAA Fisheries shares what it has learned as likely culprit behind bottlenose dolphin strandings in the Mid-Atlantic.
Dolphin Unusual Mortality Event in Mid-Atlantic

Aug 12: Under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, an Unusual Mortality Event (UME) has been declared for bottlenose dolphins in the Mid-Atlantic region from early July 2013 through the present.