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Iceland’s caretaker government announced it had issued five-year licenses to hunt fin and minke whales in Icelandic waters.

A humpback whale that had been thrilling boaters off Newport Beach, Ca., for several days breached for a prolonged period Sunday, revealing that the mammal is hardly free and thriving.

Following that sighting, they soon saw a “big white patch” underwater. “I believe it was the pleats of the throat stretched ... said it was unusual to see whales during the Port Douglas summer as we ...

along with infectious disease in the case of minke whales,” WDC said. There have been 232 stranded humpback whales along the Atlantic coast in the past eight years, NOAA data shows. Forty-seven ...

A humpback whale that had been thrilling boaters off Newport Beach, Ca., for several days breached for a prolonged period Sunday, revealing that the mammal is hardly free and thriving. The ...

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These underwater recordings ... is visited by orcas, minke, humpback, sperm, and long-finned pilot whales. Blue whales have recently made a return. But noise pollution now threatens all that ...

Statement: We are utterly dismayed by the interim Icelandic government's decision to grant a five-year licence to kill fin and minke whales. Humane Society International and the Avaaz platform have ...

“For example, how rhythmic the minke whale is. Or the Weddell seals and leopards seals, they sound harmonic and melodic—quite hypnotizing. Each different sound evokes a different kind of emotion.

The permits allow for annual catches of 209 fin whales and 217 minke whales during each year's whaling season, which runs from mid-June to September, said the government, which lost Saturday's ...