The new IUCN report, put together by more than 350 experts from more than 100 countries, finds that overfishing is the ... IUCN SSC-Shark Specialist Group. A whale shark among a school of fish.

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

Killer whales are likely responsible for the disappearance ... climate change, and overfishing According to the researchers, they “found some evidence for a causative link between the ...

Animal rights activist Paul Watson, freed this week from detention in Denmark, vowed on Saturday to end whale hunting worldwide and to stop Japan if it tried to resume whaling in the Southern Ocean.

At the time, commercial whaling by countries such as Japan and the Soviet Union was driving global whale populations to dangerously low levels while simultaneously fueling a growing international ...

SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture--The aging Nisshin Maru, a relic of Japan’s whaling tradition, has finally retired after playing a central role in research and commercial operations for more ...

Lines wrapped around a humpback whale in waters in Kahana off West Maui were cut as part of a whale rescue on Jan. 9. Another whale rescue took place on Jan. 8 off Lahaina. Courtesy photo Two ...

Japan is one of three countries to conduct commercial whaling along with Iceland and Norway. Watson said he and his group were likely targeted because their TV series, Whale Wars, "reached ...

Southern right whales have lifespans that reach well past 100 years, and 10% may live past 130 years, according to our new research published in the journal Science Advances. Some of these 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 ...

An international moratorium paused whaling in Iceland in 1986, but it was restarted in 2006. Now, it is one of only three nations, alongside Norway and Japan, that still permit commercial whaling.