Silverdale Whaling Days Festival returns this weekend with fireworks, a parade, a demolition derby, and more family activities.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Starting around 1650, whaling expanded along the Northeast coast of the British American colonies. Whaling expeditions killed ...

Award-winning wildlife photographer captures the haunting reality of wildlife living among the rusting remnants of Deception ...

The detention in Greenland of anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson pending possible extradition to Japan has turned the spotlight on the widely condemned practice of hunting whales. A 1986 moratorium ...

The move comes after Hvallur hf. announced it will no longer sell fin whale meat to Japan, once one of its largest markets.

Whalers cut open and inspect meat from a 35-ton fin whale, one of two fin whales caught off the coast of Hvalfjsrour, north of Reykjavik, on the western coast of IcelandHALLDOR KOLBEINS / AFP / Getty ...

The 7.5-foot-tall bronze artwork stands in the heart of historic New Bedford, the 19th-century whaling port that inspired the ...

A crewneck sweatshirt for sale at the New Bedford Whaling Museum store is emblazoned with the museum's viral one-star review, ...

After a four-year hiatus, Iceland’s last remaining whaling company, Hvalur hf., will resume its hunt this summer, much to the chagrin of tourism officials. As the Covid-19 pandemic had a devastating ...

Icelandic coast guards and special forces have seized a ship operated by a group founded by anti-whaling activist Paul Watson. Officials say the crew of whaling ship Hvalur 9 requested ...