Although subsistence whaling by aboriginal peoples has been carried on for thousands of years, it is mainly within about the last thousand years that humans have pursued whales for commercial gain. The history of whaling may be divided into three...

Whaling is the killing of free-roaming whales from the oceans and dates back to at least 6,000 BC. Whaling and other threats have led to at least 5 of the 13 great whales being listed as endangered.[1] Commercial whaling is subject to a moratorium by...

WHALE. Joe Roman. Reaktion Books, 2006. ISBN 1-86189-246-2, 240 pp. Whale is a small paperback that undertakes the large task of being a concise primer on the evolving relationship between man and leviathan. It fares well in that the material is digestible, wellwritten,...

WHALES, WHALING AND ECOSYSTEMS. Editors: James A. Estes, Douglas P. DeMaster, Daniel F. Doak, Terrie M. Williams, and Robert Brownell. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London. 2007. ISBN-13: 978-0- 520-24884-7, ISBN-10: 0-520-24884-8 Are Whales Really Greedy Monsters? Certain parties...

National Security: A judge has told the Navy that it cannot use high-powered sonar in its training exercises off the California coast. Saving marine animals, it seems, is more important than protecting American lives.The Navy has 11 training exercises scheduled for Southern California waters over...

Japan opened an international whaling conference Tuesday by blasting a boycott by dozens of anti-whaling nations, saying their absence would block much-needed reforms of the commission that sets regulations. The conference, which Japan called as part of its push to resume commercial whaling, was attended...

Environmental issue of the Makah whale hunting agreement