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Fin whales, the second-largest mammal on earth, are hunted in Iceland, and their meat is exported to Japan. Image credits: Aqqa Rosing-Asvid - Visit Greenland - Flickr: Finhval, CC BY 2.0,

Hundreds of whales to be harpooned as Iceland issues new hunting licenses

Spoorthy Raman 17 Dec 2024
Whale cutting in Hvalfjörður in the west of Iceland.

Icelandic government grants new license to whaling company to hunt 128 fin whales

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Jun 2024
North Atlantic orcas are threatened by persistent organic pollutants that build up in their favorite prey, marine mammals. Photo by Nitesh Jain / Unsplash

North Atlantic orcas reveal the troubling persistence of toxic ocean pollutants

Kristel Tjandra 27 Nov 2023
By Aqqa Rosing-Asvid - Visit Greenland - File:Finhval.jpg, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47954017. Image courtesy of Aqqa Rosing-Asvid via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

Iceland’s whaling paradox (commentary)

Micah Garen 13 Oct 2023
Two fin whales hunted in Iceland in 2009.

International outcry as Iceland lifts ban on what could be last whale hunt

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 1 Sep 2023
The harpoon or catcher ship Hvalur 8 arrives at the whaling station in Hvalfjörður, West Iceland. Two fin whales are tied to the starboard side of the ship. Image by Arne Feuerhahn / Hard to Port.

‘No future’: Iceland cancels whale hunt over animal welfare concerns

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Jun 2023

Iceland won’t be killing any whales this year

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 27 Apr 2020

Tool use in puffins may point to ‘underestimated’ intelligence in seabirds

Mongabay.com 8 Jan 2020

Trawling: destructive fishing method is turning seafloors to ‘deserts’

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 May 2014

Eruption yields bad news for iron fertilization-based geoengineering schemes

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Mar 2013

How much is the life of a whale worth?

Jeremy Hance 16 Jan 2012

Whaling talks break down: ban stays in place, yet whaling will continue

Analysis Jeremy Hance 23 Jun 2010

To whale or not to whale?: nations, environmental groups do some soul-searching

Analysis Jeremy Hance 22 Jun 2010

Iceland reaffirms whaling targets for 2009

Mongabay.com 19 Feb 2009

Iceland raises whale killing quota to 150 fin whales, 100 minkes per year

Mongabay.com 28 Jan 2009

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