Jaelyn Jarrett remembers moving from Nain, N.L., to Ontario as an eight-year-old when she heard, for the first time, the word ...

Populations of bowhead whales were able to hide from hunters under ice, a new study finds, saving them from extinction. But ...

Known as the "unicorns of the sea," narwhals are fleeing Canada's far north. Researchers suspect a link to noise pollution ...

The earliest documentary evidence of organised whaling dates back to the 11th century in the Basque Country. From there, the activity spread rapidly across the ports of the Bay of Biscay, from Galicia ...

Daniel Greene, vice president of the Makah Whaling Commission, stands in front of a re-constructed longhouse on his family property in Waatch, the oldest of five original Makah villages, carbon dated ...

Norway reopened its annual whale hunting season earlier this month, continuing a practice most countries abandoned decades ago. By the mid-20th century, industrial whaling had pushed many whale ...

President Donald Trump is threatening Greenland again. "REMEMBER GREENLAND, THAT BIG, POORLY RUN, PIECE OF ICE!!!" he wrote in a social media rant about European allies' failure to join his war on ...

Daniel Greene, vice president of the Makah Whaling Commission, stands in front of a re-constructed longhouse on his family property in Waatch, the oldest of five original Makah villages, carbon dated ...

Humans’ spiritual relationship with whales is as profound as the ocean depths these extraordinary mammals glide through. In the Old Testament, a whale is the instrument of God’s will; many Native ...

When tourists travel to Seattle, it's common to take in the Space Needle and the downtown skyline from Puget Sound. It's an itinerary that a newly arrived pod of killer whales appears to be following ...

Food is at the heart of Inuit culture. In the Arctic this means food hunted, fished, or gathered from the land, air, and sea. Whales, seals, caribou, muskox, fish, and birds, as well as berries and ...