An international study led by Adelaide University has found bowhead whale populations are recovering only in stocks where ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Given our local history, it's not hard to imagine one of the old whaling ships driving hard through the South Pacific. Since we ...

What can centuries-old whaling ship logs tell us about today’s extreme weather? According to scientists, the answer is a lot. They’re using the information recorded by mariners going back hundreds of ...

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 ...

A whaling ship that sank nearly two centuries ago after it was damaged in a storm was recently found on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ...

The whaling industry was wildly profitable, and decimated whale populations around the world until it was banned in the 1980s ...

BARCELONA, SPAIN—According to a statement released by the Autonomous University of Barcelona, people living some 5,000 years ago in the Babitonga Bay area on the southern coast of Brazil hunted whales ...