Researchers are pouring over old whaling-ship logs at the Providence Public Library to see if the records can help us ...

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 ...

Given our local history, it's not hard to imagine one of the old whaling ships driving hard through the South Pacific. Since we tend to think of sailing as a summertime thing, maybe it would be a ...

The federal government is withdrawing a proposal that would require more ships to slow down in East Coast waters to try to save a vanishing species of whale, officials said Wednesday. The move in ...

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 ...

"In 1841, on January 3, He set sail from the port of New Bedford on the Acushnet which was the whaling ship that he sailed for so many years." Experts call the whaling museum's read-a-thon the ...

Another is to place international monitors aboard whaling ships as well as whale “counters” and DNA testers at whaling stations to verify numbers and types of catches, in conformity with more ...

In the Heart of the Sea isn’t just an epic tale of man versus nature, it’s also a dramatic recounting of a real attack. Though some moments were dramatized, Howard's film remained faithful to ...

Once you find the golden air steam, stop your boat and start fishing in the area to hopefully hook the Eternal Frost Whale.

with demand inspiring sailors to risk life and limb on whaling ships. One particular real-life whaling-ship disaster inspired Herman Melville’s classic novel Moby-Dick as well as, many years ...

It is estimated only 10 per cent of whale strikes are reported, and some ships may not even know they’ve hit an animal. The World Sustainability Organization estimates as many as 20,000 whales ...

One section, though, is conspicuously sparse. The whale-meat section attracts only the occasional glance from the odd curious onlooker, who does not usually linger. Mr Fridrik Armann Gudmundsson ...