Weather reports made by mariners more than two hundred years ago may have relevance for research into climate change today.

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Some local scientists believe the records from whaling ship logs hold data about shifting winds, storms and tides. At the Providence Public Library, maritime historian and UMASS Dartmouth ...

Converted from a pelagic trawl boat, the factory ship first led a whaling expedition that lasted from 1991 to 1992. It was called a “moving processing factory” because the whales caught by ...

The Greens are calling for the Albanese government to immediately confirm with the Japanese consulate whether Japanese whaling "research" vessels are ...

The Greens are calling for the Albanese government to immediately confirm with the Japanese consulate whether Japanese whaling “research” vessels are currently operating in the Southern Ocean, and if ...

Old whaling ship logbooks in a local library may offer up new insight into climate change. An unlikely project is unfolding at the Providence Public Library. Local historians and scientists are ...

A Massachusetts court on Monday restored federal protections for endangered whales off New England against entanglement in ...

Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the humpback whale population has recovered extensively over the past half a century.

Watson is the former head of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, whose high-seas confrontations with whaling vessels have drawn widespread attention. He was arrested on July 21 when his ship d ...

The New Bedford Whaling Museum, which sees more than 80,000 visitors a year, is planning to expand its campus with a new 20,000 square foot building to house additional gallery space. The new building ...

Watson had been detained by police when his ship docked in Greenland's capital, Nuuk. The force was acting on a 2012 Japanese warrant which accused him of causing damage to a Japanese whaling ship ...