Oil companies like to point to the demise of the whaling industry as an example of market-based energy solutions. The reality is much more complicated. It’s called a myth for a reason. And the whale ...

A quarter-mile-long painting from a bygone era makes its 21st century debut. Long before internet streaming, television and cinema, armchair adventurers explored exotic lands through the moving ...

Gland, Switzerland: The governments of Norway and Japan are using taxpayer money to subsidize their unprofitable whaling industries, according to a first-time analysis of the economics of whaling.

‘It’s Gojira versus the whalers,’ the headline screamed. Welcome to the latest instalment of the whale wars, where truth has long been a casualty. As Japan’s whaling fleet set sail this week for its ...

As Iceland’s latest whaling season comes to a close, a heated debate continues over the ethics and sustainability of the country’s policy on these marine mammals. Filmmaker and activist Micah Garen — ...

In this engrossing account, Dolin (Political Waters) chronicles the epic history of the American whaling industry, which peaked in the mid-18th century as "American whale oil lit the world." ...

Tim Stephens receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He has provided advice to the International Fund for Animal Welfare in relation to whale conservation. Japan is reportedly set to ...

Indi Hodgson-Johnston is affiliated with and receives scholarship funding from the University of Tasmania and the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre. Julia Jabour has ...

Japan announced Thursday that it will restart its scientific whaling program next year in response to a new resolution adopted by the International Whaling Commission placing stricter regulations on ...