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The International Whaling Commission announced an international moratorium on commercial whale hunting in 1986, but the industry continues in several parts of the world.
The Whaling City Festival is back through July 9. Here is everything you need to know before arriving at Buttonwood Park.
Phishing is one of the most prominent internet scams, and its cousin scam, whaling, is just as dangerous. Here's how to identify and avoid a whaling attack.
Whaling didn't begin with the Charles W. Morgan, although most today seem certain that it did. After all, New Bedford is the Whaling City.
A Japanese whaling firm unveiled vending machines offering whale sashimi, whale steak and whale bacon in Yokohama on Tuesday in hopes of reviving sales of a food long in decline and shunned by ...
“The New Bedford whaling panorama is a spectacular example of a mass medium that has been virtually forgotten,” said landscape and panorama scholar Molly Briggs, who teaches design at the University ...
When Faith Webster, a retired schoolteacher, entered the Whaling Museum & Education Center in Cold Spring Harbor, she wasn’t aware of the recently opened exhibit detailing the lives of Black ...
How centuries-old whaling logs are filling gaps in our climate knowledge Whalers from the 18th and 19th centuries are helping 21st Century scientists on climate change.
Whaling is one of the most sophisticated forms of phishing out there. The “whale”, or the target of these scams are high-level individuals such as CEOs, senior executives, and managers. And ...
Whaling, only legal in 3 countries at the moment, might be coming to an end in Iceland as it gets cancelled for the 2nd year ...
Medieval Whaling May Have Sent Two Species To Extinction Bone records indicate that medieval whalers may have wiped out two species from European waters.
The detention in Greenland of anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson pending possible extradition to Japan has turned the spotlight on the widely condemned practice of hunting whales.