Specialized whale-bone harpoons from southern Brazil dating back 5,000 years suggest that Indigenous groups in the area were ...

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

The origins of whaling are highly debated. Now, some of the earliest signs of active whale hunting have appeared somewhere unexpected: southern Brazil.

Iceland is one of three countries that still permits commercial whaling. The activists headed to trial this week are calling ...

How do you hunt a whale when your boat is made of logs lashed with vines and your harpoon is carved from animal bone?

Ever since digital communication hit the mainstream there have been odious people using it to try and take advantage of unassuming victims. Hacking, malware, spyware, ransomware — it feels like ...

Historians have long debated whether the end of slavery in the United States was primarily driven by moral campaigns or economic changes. But what if both perspectives are looking at only part of the ...

If you watch shows like Animal Planet’s popular Whale Wars, which chronicles the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s battle against Japanese whalers in the Antarctic seas, you might think the world’s ...