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Iceland has just approved the killing of 2,000 whales over the course of the next five years. The country's government is allowing whaling companies to slaughter 217 minke and 209 fin whales per year until 2025, sparking...

Japanese hunters recently killed 122 pregnant minke whales as part of a so-called field survey, the BBC reported. The hunters caught the whales for scientific study — even though in 2014 the United Nations ruled against...

Iceland is often listed as the greenest country in the world, but one industry puts a black stain on their record – whaling. In 1986, the International Whaling Commission issued a moratorium on commercial whaling, but Iceland...

Each year, innocent animals around the world are killed in the name of science. It’s nearly impossible to put a number on it, and there are heated debates on a near-daily basis about whether it’s necessary to sentence...

The great whales are the largest creatures on Earth, but their relative rarity in our oceans has meant they have generally been overlooked in favor of the far more abundant algae and planktons when it comes to assessing ocean...

Rakuten, Japan’s biggest online retailer, has announced that it will no longer sell whale and dolphin meat after the International Court of Justice ordered all whale hunting in the southern ocean to stop...