In 2023, Iceland’s government lifted a ban on commercial whaling. The temporary ban had been implemented in June due to ...

Killer whales are among the oceans’ top predators. But in Iceland, pilot whales have them running scared. Filipa Samarra This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Tourists and a ...

On Dec. 6, Iceland’s caretaker government announced it had issued five-year licenses to hunt fin and minke whales in Icelandic waters. It granted the fin whale hunting license to Hvalur hf., the ...

One day in June 2022 Chérine Baumgartner, a researcher at the Icelandic Orca Project, was watching from a dinghy as a pod of killer whales fed on herring—when she noticed something very odd about what ...

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REYKJAVIK, Iceland -- Two ships commissioned by Iceland's government left port Sunday to begin the hunt for 38 minke whales over the next six weeks, despite the protests of conservationists and ...

Anti-whaling activists are targeting UK holidaymakers to Iceland, who they say are responsible for an industry that kills hundreds of the animals each year. British guests in Icelandic hotels and ...

The Icelandic Coast Guard rescued an entangled whale during a six-hour operation, photos show. Photo from the Icelandic Coast Guard An entangled whale was set free off the coast of Iceland, following ...

The trip was the first-ever record of a migration between the two countries. A pod of Orca whales has made an unprecedented trip from Iceland to Genoa, Italy, according to a nonprofit organization ...