A deadly pathogen known as cetacean morbillivirus has been detected in Arctic waters for the first time. Researchers found it ...

The drones carry Petri dishes and hover over the blowholes of northern whales. Droplets of their respiratory fluid land on ...

FILE PHOTO: A man stands near a finwhale being towed to a port in Reykjavik OSLO (Reuters) - Iceland's government said on Thursday it will resume hunting fin whales after a two-month halt, but with ...

Iceland imposed a temporary ban on the hunting of fin whales in June. The country recently resumed hunting of fin whales, but with increased supervision and requirements on hunting methods. Rights ...

A fin whale has been filmed taking more than two hours to die after being harpooned by whalers in Iceland. The Icelandic Food and Veterinary Authority released an edited video of the hunt, but ...

LONDON — Iceland’s government said Tuesday that it has issued a license to the North Atlantic nation’s last fin whaling company to hunt and kill 128 fin whales this year. Animal rights groups say that ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Washington, DC—Today, Japan and Iceland decided to allow each country’s last remaining whale companies to hunt fin whales, the second largest animal on the planet. Adopting the recommendations of a ...

Washington, DC—Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell issued a formal declaration that Iceland is undermining the effectiveness of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna ...