In this poignant debut, environmentalist Winterbottom explores the bloody history of the Antarctic whaling industry in the 20th century. Winterbottom writes that she originally approached the topic ...

The Southern Ocean encircling Antarctica is the world’s largest feeding ground for baleen whales – species like humpbacks that filter tiny organisms from seawater for food. In the 20th century, ...

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world’s largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300. The most recent ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

PORTOROZ, Slovenia, September 18, 2014 (ENS) - The International Whaling Commission voted Thursday against Japan's plans to resume "scientific" whaling in the Antarctic next year, but Japan said it ...

Japanese whaling vessels on Tuesday departed from a port in Yamaguchi Prefecture in western Japan to join a fleet that will begin hunting whales for "scientific research" in a controversial move that ...

Once hunted to the brink of extinction, fin whales in the Southern Ocean have rebounded and returned to their historical feeding grounds, according to a new survey. By Winston Choi-Schagrin From a ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Local researchers are using centuries-old whaling log books to study how weather patterns have changed. Part of their research is being done at the Providence Public Library, ...

Australia said Friday it will challenge Japan's whale hunting in the Antarctic at the International Court of Justice, a major legal escalation in its campaign to ban the practice despite Tokyo's ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan announced Wednesday that it is leaving the International Whaling Commission to resume commercial hunts for the animals for the first time in 30 years, but said it would no longer go ...