Whaling ships set sail on Monday from Japan as the country resumed commercial hunts for the first time in decades after withdrawing from the International Whaling Commission. Five ships from whaling ...

Australia's government released graphic pictures Thursday of Japanese hunters harpooning whales and dragging their bleeding carcasses onto a ship near Antarctica, calling it evidence of the ...

As the global whaling moratorium turns 40, experts reflect on how the 1986 ban helped save great whales—and the threats they ...

TOKYO -- As diners sit down to lunches of whale meat in Tokyo and elsewhere across the nation, Japan's whaling fleet is on its annual hunt in the Antarctic, drawing protests from environmental groups, ...