Editor's note, July 1, 2019: For the first time in more than 30 years, Japan has resumed commercial whale hunting. On July 1, a fleet of five ships set sail in the morning and returned in the ...

Tokyo - Japan said it would resume its controversial annual whale hunt despite the International Whaling Commission demanding the country provide more information to prove the programme is really for ...

Japan has hunted whales under a loophole in the 1986 global moratorium, which allows lethal research on the mammals, but it has made no secret of the fact that their meat ends up in restaurants and on ...

Technological advancements in the past decade have now made it possible to date the oldest of the tools to about 20,000 years ...

BEIJING -- A Japanese whaling fleet hunting protected humpback whales to kill sailed toward Antarctica waters Monday, while the fleet itself is the object of a hunt by Greenpeace. In this handout ...

Humpback whales, they pointed out, live in close-knit groups. The death of just one could have a significant impact on others. The species had been protected since the mid-1960s by international ...

The Whale God (1962), a rare kaiju film from Japan’s Daiei studio, will be shown theatrically in the UK for the first time at ...

The company cited multiple reasons for its decision. Major whaling company makes stunning announcement about future plans: 'Could signal the beginning of the end' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Denver author Peter Heller is this year's winner of the Friends of the Pikes Peak Library District's annual Frank Waters ...

Japanese train stations, especially in big cities like Tokyo and Osaka, are vast and multi-leveled. Station navigation apps help you find exits, restrooms, elevators and the fastest routes between ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a CaziCon comics convention, Carnaval, Joyfest and Hong ...