Science news articles about 'whaling ships'

A whaling ship is seen departing Japan Monday in video provided by Greenpeace, which claims the ship is on its way to Antarctic waters to hunt whales. Warning: Video contains graphic imagery.

A boat carrying anti-whaling activists collided Friday with a Japanese whaling ship in Antarctic waters. The whalers claim the Sea Shepherd's action was a deliberate ramming.

... patterns, humpback whales were nearly hunted to extinction for their oil and meat by industrial-sized whaling ships well through the middle of the 20th century. But the species has been bouncing back ...

... study previously identified the same individual whale in both Atlantic and Indian Ocean breeding ... Shown by Logbook Records from American Whale Ships"—was compiled by Charles Townsend of the New York ...

A New Zealand activist who boarded a Japanese whaling ship in protest is to be taken to Japan for questioning.

... used to light the streetlights of Quito, Equador. Others were taken as food or ballast for pirate and whaling ships. Museum specimens and current molecular technology, coupled with 15 years of field ...

Militant environmentalists said they had pelted stink bombs at a Japanese whaling ship in Australian waters in their latest bid to disrupt hunting of the protected creatures.

Rescuers hold out little hope of finding a Japanese sailor alive after he goes missing from a whaling ship in the Antarctic.

Anti-whaling activists accuse a Japanese whaling ship of a ramming attack on one of their boats in Antarctic waters.

(AP) -- Anti-whaling ship the Bob Barker and a Japanese harpoon boat collided in icy Antarctic waters in the second major clash this year in increasingly aggressive ...