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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,

Icelandic whaling company calls off fin whale hunt this summer

Shreya Dasgupta, Spoorthy Raman 15 Apr 2025

Near-extinct North Atlantic right whales get a small population boost

Shanna Hanbury 24 Oct 2024

Japanese ship hunts massive fin whale, country’s first in 50 years

Mongabay.com 8 Aug 2024

Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson arrested in Greenland

Mongabay.com 24 Jul 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

Indigenous Alaskans drive research in a melting arctic

Gabe Allen 4 Jun 2024

Report: Rising slaughter of small whales and dolphins threatens ocean balance

Elizabeth Fitt 6 Mar 2024
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
North Pacific right whales south of Kodiak Island, Alaska, 2021. Image captured by scientists working under NOAA permit 20465.

How do you study one of the world’s rarest whales?

Dana Wright 25 Apr 2023

‘There’s hope’ for North Atlantic right whales: Q&A with filmmaker Nadine Pequeneza

John Cannon 16 Feb 2022

Faroe Islands to evaluate traditional hunt after slaughter of 1,400 dolphins

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 17 Sep 2021

Will ‘ropeless’ fishing gear be seaworthy in time to save endangered whales?

John Cannon 2 Sep 2021

‘Minke whales for dinner’: Norway’s controversial whale hunt is still on

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Mar 2021

481 and counting: Norway’s whaling catch hits four-year high

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 27 Aug 2020

Baby humpback whales bulk up in Hawaii ahead of migration [VIDEO]

Liz Kimbrough 5 Jun 2020

Iceland won’t be killing any whales this year

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 27 Apr 2020

Bid to get ‘aquatic wild meat’ off the menu and under protection

Edward Carver 28 Feb 2020

Japan resumes commercial whale hunting

Mongabay.com 2 Jul 2019
A short-finned pilot whale in the Canary Islands, Spain. Image by Gustavo Perez via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

New pilot whale subspecies revealed: Q&A with marine biologist Amy Van Cise

Rebecca Kessler 7 Jun 2019

Rhett Butler on how sound can save forests and top rainforest storylines to watch in 2019

Mike Gaworecki 8 Jan 2019

Japan leaving IWC, to resume commercial whaling

Mongabay.com 26 Dec 2018

Young right whale dies, likely from entanglement in fishing gear

Mongabay.com 3 Oct 2018

Japan kills 333 whales, including 200 pregnant females

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Mar 2016

Mystery whale known only from specimens found living in the wild

Rebecca Kessler 3 Nov 2015

Hunted orcas spotlight Caribbean whaling

Mike Gaworecki 17 Aug 2015

Expert panel rebukes Japan’s new whaling proposal

Jeremy Hance 15 Apr 2015

Genetic sleuthing reveals grisly details of historic whale hunting

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Nov 2014

Norway slaughters over 700 whales this season

Jeremy Hance 8 Sep 2014

Japan changes its mind about Antarctic whaling ban, plans to continue hunts in 2015

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Apr 2014

Court partially stops Japan’s ‘scientific’ whaling, but Pacific harvests to continue

Morgan Erickson-Davis 1 Apr 2014

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