Old whaling ship logbooks in a local library may offer up new insight into climate change. An unlikely project is unfolding at the Providence Public Library. Local historians and scientists are ...

Weather reports made by mariners more than two hundred years ago may have relevance for research into climate change today.

The Greens are calling for the Albanese government to immediately confirm with the Japanese consulate whether Japanese whaling "research" vessels are ...

The Greens are calling for the Albanese government to immediately confirm with the Japanese consulate whether Japanese whaling “research” vessels are currently operating in the Southern Ocean, and if ...

In our first conversation with Captain Paul Watson, the anti-whaling activist talked through his recent five months in a ...

Imagine you are at sea facing a violent battle with an enemy ship. The experienced 17th-century surgeon John Moyle asked his ...

"In 1841, on January 3, He set sail from the port of New Bedford on the Acushnet which was the whaling ship that he sailed for so many years." Experts call the whaling museum's read-a-thon the ...

The New Bedford Whaling Museum, which sees more than 80,000 visitors a year, is planning to expand its campus with a new ...

Some local scientists believe the records from whaling ship logs hold data about shifting winds, storms and tides. At the Providence Public Library, maritime historian and UMASS Dartmouth ...