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

Weather reports made by mariners more than two hundred years ago may have relevance for research into climate change today. Some local scientists believe the records from whaling ship logs hold data ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) – It survived countless storms and Confederate raids during the Civil War while taking crews across unchartered oceans in search of whales whose oil lit the world. The Charles W.

Whaling ships set sail on Monday from Japan as the country resumed commercial hunts for the first time in decades after withdrawing from the International Whaling Commission. Five ships from whaling ...

An estimated 90 percent of all traded goods travel by sea, where vessels tap into a vast network of shipping routes that connect even the most far-flung places. But humans aren’t the only ones ...

“Whale Song,” a new public art installation created by French artist Jean-Marie Appriou to demonstrate the historical and mythological significance of whales, premiered at Boston’s Central Wharf Park ...

In the Heart of the Sea isn’t just an epic tale of man versus nature, it’s also a dramatic recounting of a real attack. Though some moments were dramatized, Howard's film remained faithful to the ...