"The people around here got together and saved most of them," a local marine biologist said of the rescue efforts Benjamin VanHoose is the Senior News Editor on the TV team at PEOPLE. He has written ...

(NEXSTAR) – Bits of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt – a 5,000-mile-wide seaweed bloom – have started to wash up in Florida, but we’re likely months away from peak activity, researchers said Sunday.

Rescuers are trying to free a pod of long-finned pilot whales stranded off the Australian island of Tasmania. Around 470 whales are in the pod, more than half of which have already died, in one of the ...

More than half of the pod of whales stranded on an Australian beach had already died before the rest had to be euthanized. The last of nearly 100 pilot whales that stranded themselves on a beach in ...

Aliza Chasan is a Digital Content Producer for "60 Minutes" and CBSNews.com. She has previously written for outlets including PIX11 News, The New York Daily News, Inside Edition and DNAinfo. Aliza ...

MANILA, Philippines — Citing delays due to rough seas, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said the construction of a beaching ramp on Philippine-held Pagasa Island (Thitu) in the West Philippine Sea ...