In this poignant debut, environmentalist Winterbottom explores the bloody history of the Antarctic whaling industry in the 20th century. Winterbottom writes that she originally approached the topic ...

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world’s largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300. The most recent ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

Sometimes, it can seem like the natural world is just being bombarded with one piece of bad news after another. So we’re pleased to announce that, for once, something good has happened – really good!

Into New York Harbor last week steamed the second biggest whaling ship afloat, the 22,000-ton S. S. Sir James Clark Ross. In her hold was the largest cargo of whale oil ever to enter the port—a 45,000 ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Anti-whaling activists seeking to disrupt Japanese whaling around Antarctica said Saturday their ship had docked in Tasmania and should head back to the Southern Ocean next week.