American Cruise Lines is expanding New Bedford stops, and aims to build a park at the state pier. How much does one of its ...

Greenland's tourism industry is expected to see a boom this year following the launch of a new route between the island’s ...

Long before ships sailed the oceans or factories hunted whales for oil, humans living near the Bay of Biscay were already ...

The 3-D printing process reduced the manufacturing time of one part, which traditionally takes nearly a year to produce, by ...

The Whalers’ Memory Bank brings together new and lost stories of Scottish whalers and their intrepid adventures on South ...

It was on a trip to intercept a Japanese whaling ship in the north Atlantic after a stay in Ireland last summer that Captain Paul ... but I’ve learned so much being part of this,” Mr Kennedy ...

Japan argues that whaling is part of its history and culture. A rigid insistence on maritime sovereignty offers a more convincing explanation for Tokyo’s stance.

The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, CO2 Foundation, Jim ... With the near complete end of commercial whaling, ship collisions are now a leading cause of death worldwide ...

A humpback whale in front of cargo ships in the Santa Barbara Channel, off the California coast. (Credit: Adam Ernster) The team found that mandatory measures to reduce whale-ship collisions were very ...

It’s well known that cargo vessels and whales don’t mix; whale-ship collisions are one of the leading causes of death for the majestic creatures. However, No paywalls.

A study maps global whale-ship collision risks, showing shipping overlaps with 92% of whale habitats. Only 7% of high-risk zones have mitigation measures. Targeted actions, including rerouting and ...

The research team found that only 7% of areas at highest risk for whale-ship collisions have any measures in place to protect whales from this threat. For the four whale species in this study, these ...