Many members of the international community consider whale-hunting a barbaric practice that should have been banned decades ago.  But some countries have ...

Japan withdrew from the IWC in 2019 and resumed ... such as being able to process whale carcasses indoors. “No other whaling ship in the world is as large and state-of-the-art as this one ...

SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture—Japan’s new whaling mothership ... president of Kyodo Senpaku Co., the whaling company that owns the ship, during the ship’s departure ceremony.

Japan is making bold moves to change its anti-war culture. That’s not by choice. It’s out of necessity. Japan’s Maritime Self ...

The added protection for the environmentally and culturally sensitive area in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands is set to take effect in March.

Conservation groups are concerned that the endangered right whale is vulnerable to extinction as the Trump administration ...

The proposed rules would have slowed more ships to prevent collisions with endangered North Atlantic right whales.

The federal government is withdrawing a proposal that would require more ships to slow down in East Coast waters to try to save a vanishing species of whale, officials said Wednesday. The move in ...

The federal government is withdrawing a proposal that would require more ships to slow down in East Coast waters to try to save a vanishing species of whale, officials said Wednesday. The move in ...

After two years of debate and 90,000 public comments, NOAA withdrew a contentious boat speed rule aimed at Atlantic right whale conservation.