KUSHIRO, Japan (Reuters) - Japanese whaling ships prepared on Sunday to set to sea, with crews gathering on decks in a northern port a day ahead of Japan's first commercial whaling hunt in more than ...

Learn how Arctic sea ice created natural refuges for bowhead whales during centuries of industrial whaling, shaping which ...

Sea ice barriers delayed access to some of the most profitable whaling grounds in the Arctic, providing important natural sanctuaries for bowhead whales, according to the findings, published in the ...

A new study shows that old whaling routes and Arctic ice still shape which bowhead whale populations recover today.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will resume commercial whaling from July in its waters and exclusive economic zone while ending its controversial hunts in the Antarctic, it said on Wednesday, as it announced ...

TOKYO -- 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 to ...

Japan's government said Wednesday that it will start commercial whaling again in July and leave the International Whaling Commission. The... Japan Plans To Resume Commercial Whaling Operations DAVID ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan says it is leaving the International Whaling Commission to resume commercial hunts but says it will no longer go to the Antarctic to hunt. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga ...

Whalers cut open and inspect meat from a 35-ton fin whale, one of two fin whales caught off the coast of Hvalfjsrour, north of Reykjavik, on the western coast of IcelandHALLDOR KOLBEINS / AFP / Getty ...