The International Whaling Commission (IWC) was established in 1946 to prevent the collapse of several species that had been hunted to near extinction over the preceding centuries. In 1986, after long ...

These three countries alone are suspected of killing nearly 45,000 whales since 1986, when commercial whaling was banned.

Ships are hitting and killing whales off the California coast at some of the highest rates in more than a decade, according to data obtained and tabulated by the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit. The ...

Canada's Marineland, which has threatened to kill its captive whales, wants government approval to sell the belugas to the United States after its China export proposal was rejected, an official and a ...